Eric Rosen
@erosen1.bsky.social
PR flack, resister, lover of all sports, Nats, cheap beer, fine wife, great all grown up kids, rescue pup Presley, snark to make a point, always typos
#BLM OTD 1955 the Montgomery Bus boycott began, setting the stage for public transportation desegregation. The protest began 4 days after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man & was arrested & fined. The boycott, led by MLK, Jr. lasted 381 days.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
#BLM OTD 1955 the Montgomery Bus boycott began, setting the stage for public transportation desegregation. The protest began 4 days after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man & was arrested & fined. The boycott, led by MLK, Jr. lasted 381 days.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BLM OTD 1969 civil rights leader Fred Hampton, a leader of the Black Panthers, was shot & killed during a police raid in Chicago causing public outrage. Ensuing investigations scrutinized the FBIs attempts to dismantle the Panthers & other Black organizations.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
December 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
#BLM OTD 1969 civil rights leader Fred Hampton, a leader of the Black Panthers, was shot & killed during a police raid in Chicago causing public outrage. Ensuing investigations scrutinized the FBIs attempts to dismantle the Panthers & other Black organizations.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
Dementia meshed with hate, criming, conning, lying and fighting to not get caught for being a pedophile must be exhausting.
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Dementia meshed with hate, criming, conning, lying and fighting to not get caught for being a pedophile must be exhausting.
#BLM OTD 1955 Fred Guinn and Lawrence Graham (later known as Ahmed Akinwole Alhamisi) were the 1st Black student athletes to participate in an all-white public school sports event when they played in a basketball game for Oak Ridge High School in Tennessee.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
#BLM OTD 1955 Fred Guinn and Lawrence Graham (later known as Ahmed Akinwole Alhamisi) were the 1st Black student athletes to participate in an all-white public school sports event when they played in a basketball game for Oak Ridge High School in Tennessee.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BLM OTD 1859 abolitionist John Brown was hanged in Charles Town, VA for raiding the federal armory at Harpers Ferry. The raid tried to seize weapons & initiate a slave uprising & liberation movement. It failed & led to Brown's capture & execution for treason.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
December 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
#BLM OTD 1859 abolitionist John Brown was hanged in Charles Town, VA for raiding the federal armory at Harpers Ferry. The raid tried to seize weapons & initiate a slave uprising & liberation movement. It failed & led to Brown's capture & execution for treason.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
Looks like Petey is starting to sweat the fact that he’s a murderer.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Looks like Petey is starting to sweat the fact that he’s a murderer.
Seems like Petey is starting to sweat being arrested for murder.
December 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Seems like Petey is starting to sweat being arrested for murder.
#BLM OTD 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, AL bus & was arrested. Her stand sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system & led to a 1956 SCOTUS decision banning segregation on public transportation.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#BLM OTD 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, AL bus & was arrested. Her stand sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system & led to a 1956 SCOTUS decision banning segregation on public transportation.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
And, the winner for the Nobel Peace Prize…
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
And, the winner for the Nobel Peace Prize…
Defintely not new...
November 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Defintely not new...
#BLM OTD 1883 Sojourner Truth, abolitionist, women's rights activist died in MI at 86. She is known for her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech & was the 1st Black woman to win a court case vs a white man to recover her son from slavery. 11/26: Sojourner Truth Day in NY.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
#BLM OTD 1883 Sojourner Truth, abolitionist, women's rights activist died in MI at 86. She is known for her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech & was the 1st Black woman to win a court case vs a white man to recover her son from slavery. 11/26: Sojourner Truth Day in NY.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BLM OTD 1955 The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) banned racial segregation on buses & in waiting rooms involved in interstate travel. The decision overturned the "Jim Crow" regulations that private bus companies had imposed on Black interstate travelers.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
#BLM OTD 1955 The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) banned racial segregation on buses & in waiting rooms involved in interstate travel. The decision overturned the "Jim Crow" regulations that private bus companies had imposed on Black interstate travelers.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BLM OTD 1865 Mississippi enacted some of the first Black Codes after the Civil War. The laws were meant to control & virtually re-enslave newly freed Blacks, banning them from jury service, testifying against whites, owning firearms & attending white schools.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
#BLM OTD 1865 Mississippi enacted some of the first Black Codes after the Civil War. The laws were meant to control & virtually re-enslave newly freed Blacks, banning them from jury service, testifying against whites, owning firearms & attending white schools.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
Trump is fawning at Mamdani the way he looks at 14 year old girls.
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Trump is fawning at Mamdani the way he looks at 14 year old girls.
#BLM OTD 1934 at 17 Ella Fitzgerald made her singing debut at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, NY.
The “First Lady of Song,” Fitzgerald was a jazz singer with remarkable vocal talents. She won 13 Grammys & in 1967 received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
The “First Lady of Song,” Fitzgerald was a jazz singer with remarkable vocal talents. She won 13 Grammys & in 1967 received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
#BLM OTD 1934 at 17 Ella Fitzgerald made her singing debut at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, NY.
The “First Lady of Song,” Fitzgerald was a jazz singer with remarkable vocal talents. She won 13 Grammys & in 1967 received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
The “First Lady of Song,” Fitzgerald was a jazz singer with remarkable vocal talents. She won 13 Grammys & in 1967 received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BLM OTD 1835 David Ruggles, a Black abolitionist living in New York City, founds the New York Committee of Vigilance, an interracial collective working to protect free Black New Yorkers and fugitive former slaves from kidnappers and police.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#BLM OTD 1835 David Ruggles, a Black abolitionist living in New York City, founds the New York Committee of Vigilance, an interracial collective working to protect free Black New Yorkers and fugitive former slaves from kidnappers and police.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BLM OTD 1906 dozens of Black vets wrongfully discharged from the 25th Infantry Regiment, a segregated unit stationed at Fort Brown, TX, went to San Antonio seeking work. White employers citywide refused to hire them in an attempt to drive them out of town.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
#BLM OTD 1906 dozens of Black vets wrongfully discharged from the 25th Infantry Regiment, a segregated unit stationed at Fort Brown, TX, went to San Antonio seeking work. White employers citywide refused to hire them in an attempt to drive them out of town.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BLM OTD 1983 officers acting under Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge beat James Cody, a Black man, with a flashlight, electric shocked him & threatened to castrate him. For 30 yrs Burge oversaw the torture of 100+ Black men, causing many forced confessions.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
November 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
#BLM OTD 1983 officers acting under Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge beat James Cody, a Black man, with a flashlight, electric shocked him & threatened to castrate him. For 30 yrs Burge oversaw the torture of 100+ Black men, causing many forced confessions.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
So, Trump’s secure border can’t keep cows out. Nice wall.😂
“Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over Trump’s wall and jacked up beef prices.”
“Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over Trump’s wall and jacked up beef prices.”
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
So, Trump’s secure border can’t keep cows out. Nice wall.😂
“Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over Trump’s wall and jacked up beef prices.”
“Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over Trump’s wall and jacked up beef prices.”
#BLM OTD 1967 3,500 Philly students walked out of class, marched to the Board of Ed & demanded the teaching of Black history, the right to wear African garb & renaming several mostly Black high schools after African Ameircans who contributed to Black history.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
November 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
#BLM OTD 1967 3,500 Philly students walked out of class, marched to the Board of Ed & demanded the teaching of Black history, the right to wear African garb & renaming several mostly Black high schools after African Ameircans who contributed to Black history.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BLM OTD 1960 4 federal marshals escorted 6 yr old Ruby Bridges to her 1st day of 1sr grade as the 1st Black student to attend previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. A riotous white mob screamed slurs and threats as she arrived.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
#BLM OTD 1960 4 federal marshals escorted 6 yr old Ruby Bridges to her 1st day of 1sr grade as the 1st Black student to attend previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. A riotous white mob screamed slurs and threats as she arrived.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BLM OTD 1956 SCOTUS rules Alabama bus segregation unconstitutional. The ruling was a win for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African-Americans didn't ride buses for over a year to protest Rosa Parks' arrest for not giving her seat to a white man in 1955.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#BLM OTD 1956 SCOTUS rules Alabama bus segregation unconstitutional. The ruling was a win for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African-Americans didn't ride buses for over a year to protest Rosa Parks' arrest for not giving her seat to a white man in 1955.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BLM OTD 1935 two Black teenagers, Ernest Collins (15) and Benny Mitchell (16), were lynched by a mob of 700 people in Colorado County, Texas. The lynching was a public spectacle following a false accusation of murder, and no one was punished for the crime.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
#BLM OTD 1935 two Black teenagers, Ernest Collins (15) and Benny Mitchell (16), were lynched by a mob of 700 people in Colorado County, Texas. The lynching was a public spectacle following a false accusation of murder, and no one was punished for the crime.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BLM OTD 1831 Nat Turner was executed. Turner, an enslaved Baptist minister who believed he was chosen by God to lead his people out of slavery, was hanged for leading a rebellion that killed about 60 white people in August 1831.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
#BLM OTD 1831 Nat Turner was executed. Turner, an enslaved Baptist minister who believed he was chosen by God to lead his people out of slavery, was hanged for leading a rebellion that killed about 60 white people in August 1831.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory