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CuriPow
by CuriPow
Welcome to CuriPow, where your curiosity empowers you with untold short stories on historic diversity. Sign up for free today at www.mycuripow.com.
Episodes
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The Inspiration for CuriPow
Today I'm going to do something a little different. I wanted to share with you all my inspiration for starting CuriPow...
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Angel Island
Angel Island Immigration Station, formerly the United States Immigration Station an Angel Island, was the principal immigration facility on the West Coast...
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For Display Only
Information about the first Chinese immigrants to the United States is generally difficult to acquire...
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Seismic Activity
In 1977 veteran geophysicist and seismologist Waverly Person became the fir black director of NEIC...
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Microscopic Discoveries
Albert Baez immigrated from Mexico to the United States when he was still a child...
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Flying First Class
In 1958 Ruth Carol Taylor became the first black flight attendant...
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I Am A Anarchist And A Radical
Lucy Parsons was an early socialist activist of color...
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Before Modern Pesticides
To combat insects such as lice, the Paiute and Shoshone of the Great Basin, washed their hair in a hot infusion...
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The Motorcycle Queen of Miami
Bessie Stringfield was the first Jamaican American woman to ride across the United States solo...
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Shining Star
As the first Chinese American movie star, Anna May Wong used her fame to challenge racism and stereotypes...
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Recognition For Saving Lives
Carlos Juan Finlay, a Cuban American epidemiologist discovered that yellow fever is transmitted from infected to healthy humans by mosquito...
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The Philippine Independence Act
The Tydings-McDuffie Act, also called the Philippine Commonwealth and Independence Act, was a U.S. statute that provided for Philippine Independence...
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Black Gold
Native Americans were known to have sunk pits into the ground to extract oil more than 400 years before Edwin Drake drilled and oil well in 1859...
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Air Engagement
In 1917, Eugene Bullard became the first and only black combat pilot to fly during WWI...
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark
In 1898, Wong Kim Ark, a Chinese American, won a landmark Supreme Court case...
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Twenty One Black Women
In 1821 21 black women met in New York to draw up plans for the African Dorcas Society...
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Business Mogul
In 1846 William Leidesdorff opened the first hotel in San Francisco...
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Men Of Steel
In 1863, construction began on the transcontinental railroad-1,776 miles of tracks...
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Ahead Of Its Time
Though Scotsman Alexander Wood is credited with inventing the syringe in 1873...
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Caribbean Recruitment
Between 1881 and the beginning of WW I, the United States recruited over 250,000 workers from the Caribbean...
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Intellectually Speaking
In 1897 The American Negro Academy was founded...
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The Language Lives On
Far from being a dead or obscure language, Garifuna is a living, vibrant and growing language...
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Windy City
Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable, born in St. Marc, Sainte-Dominique (now Haiti) was a black pioneer trader...
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The Foreign Miner Tax
In addition to prospecting for gold in California, many Chinese also came as contract laborers to Hawaii...
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Changing Hearts and Minds
In 1820, The Emancipator was the first anti-slavery magazine...
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Turtle Island
North America (the United States and Canada) was originally known as Turtle Island...
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The Niagara Movement
In 1905 Twenty-nine black intellectuals and activist from fourteen states met near Niagara Falls, New York...
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The Jones-Shafroth Act
In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson sign the Jones-Shafroth Act which made the residents of Puerto Rico American citizens...
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Sikkar
On a 1,000-year-old pottery vessel found in Guatemala, a Maya man is shown smoking a roll of tobacco leaves tied with a string...
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The Apostle of The Cuban Revolution
Sometimes called the Apostle of the Cuban Revolution, José Martí was born in Havana...
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The First Wave
On April 18, 1975, less than two weeks before the fall of Saigon, President Ford authorized the entry of 130,000 refugees...
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Taking Flight
In 1933 Albert Ernest Forsythe and Charles Alfred "Chief" Anderson were the first black pilots to make a round trip transcontinental flight...
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The Few, The Proud
In 1942 black Marines were first enlisted but were placed on inactive status...
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Before The Pill
Recorded instances of Native American women taking contraceptives dates back to the 1700's...
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In Rain, Sleet or Snow
In 1891 Minnie Geddings Cox was the first black postmistress in the United States...
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Gold Mountain
The first Asian immigrants to come to the U.S. in significant numbers were the Chinese in the middle of the 19th century...
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The Real McCoy
In 1872 Elijah McCoy patented the first version of his lubricator for steam engines...
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Lights, Camera, Action
In 1916 The Lincoln Motion Picture company was the first movie company organized by black filmmakers...
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Early Pioneer
Philip Jaisohn arrived in the U.S. in 1885 as a political exile...
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Chocolate ER
In 1891 Provident Hospital in Chicago, Illinois was the first African American hospital owned and operated in the US...
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Red light, Green light
Garrett Morgan, a brilliant inventor, and business man was the first to patent a 3-way automatic traffic signal...
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The Forgotten Samurai
Yasuke was Japan's first samurai of black African origin...
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The 6888th
In 1945 more than seven hundred enlisted members of the 6888th Women's Army Corps Battalion were sent to England...
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The Chinese Exclusion Act
In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the only US law to prevent immigration and naturalization on the basis of race...
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Pea Island
In 1880 The Pea Island, North Carolina Lifesaving Station was the first and only all black Coast Guard facility...
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Wave Runner
Duke Kahanamoku came to be known as the father of international surfing...
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Intellectually Speaking
In 1895 W.E.B. Dubois was the first black to receive a doctorate from Harvard University...
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Into The Stars
Ellen Ochoa made history in 1993 when she boarded the space shuttle Discovery...
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Fighting For Your Rights
Patsy Takemoto Mink was the first women of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives...
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Before Tucker There Was Patterson
In 1915 Frederick D Patterson was the first black man to build cars between 1915 - 1919...
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