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#OTD in 1868, influential activist, scholar and writer #WEBDuBois was born. A founder of the @NAACP, #TheCrisis & #DuBoisandDillPublishing & a teacher of the 1st #BlackHistory university class, we celebrate his great legacy in our neighborhoods: https://t.co/3i64evvbbb
#OTD in 1913 The Armory Show opened a world of possibilities for the contemporary art scene at home and abroad. On display along w/ 1600 total works were pieces by Villagers William Glackens and Edward Hopper. More: https://t.co/DL8tevEeGm
The Umbra Collective captured aspects of social reality often called ‘uncommercial,’ ‘unpalatable,’ ‘unpopular,’ and ‘unwanted,' & made its mark on the downtown poetry scene of the 60s and 70s with "audacious" performances and publications. More here: https://t.co/I6sQroRuZJ
#GreenwichVillage was home of the first #elevatedrail & our local streets once had 4 "Els" overhead. Learn about their histories, routes, the points of interest they connected & the transformations they incited: https://t.co/HlAE7udZuJ
#OTD in 1804, @NYHistory was founded with the intention to catalog and preserve the already 190-year history of New York City. Today we celebrate its 216th anniversary and spotlight its stay in the #EastVillage: https://t.co/47IrC2ZsDR
#HappyBirthday to the great #EastVillage painter #WolfKhan, b. this day in 1927. He painted everything, incl. #GreenwichVillage and #NYC like landscapes, bringing out haunting details the naked eye might otherwise miss. More: https://t.co/ySgHpajtRo
What do Thomas Paine and Amiri Baraka have in common? Drinking & writing in #GreenwichVillage are just the start. Follow these and many others literary greats/unlikely pairs in our most recent (virtual) @LiteraryPubCrawl — watch the video, and cheers: https://t.co/oIzgVFG2oz
OTD in 1813, Henry Bergh, founder of the @ASPCA. The group’s and the #AnimalRights movement’s roots can be found, and in some surprising ways still seen, in #GreenwichVillage: https://t.co/Vampoy5hpd
The International Workers Order+Jewish People’s Fraternal Order at 80 5th Ave were shut down during the #RedScare & their archives seized. Now those archives are digitized+available to the public, telling a rich story of #CivilRights+ #SocialJustice work: https://t.co/kFpbE6fBf4
50 yrs ago today, @ElectricLady is opened in #GreenwichVillage by #JimiHendrix. Some of the most incredible music of the last half-century has been recorded there. The bldg’s amazing+surprising history goes back even further; here’s the story: https://t.co/lfGontSkZk