Happy Black History Month to proudly black men and women and children around the globe, and everyone out there that has faced hardships because of the color of their skin. This month is all yours. And to celebrate, we are bringing the 40 best #HistoricPOC tweets, a hashtag launched by @Karnythia, to light. Enjoy, have fun, and don’t let anyone tell you you deserve less because your skin is darker. POC were always, and will always be, important. Love y’all.





1. Moses (~1400 BCE).

2. A Dozer Operator.

3. Ballard Normal School graduating class of 1930.

4. Maybel Fairbanks (1915-2001)

5. St. Phillips School of Nursing.

6. Mifflin W. Gibbs (1823-1915).

7. The CUTEST black couple.

8. Bass Reeves (1838-1910).

9. George Bridgetower (1778-1860).

10. African American CCC Camp dinner line.

11. Thelma Dewitty (1912-1977).

12. Bessie Blount Griffin (1914-2009).

13. Mother Theodore Williams.

14. Roscoe Brown (1922-)

15. Willie Mae Thornton (1926-1984).

16. Luis Robles (1849-1899).

17. Toussaint L’Overture (1743-1803).

18. Jane Austen’s characters of color.

19. Italian African Heritage.

20. Aliya Hassan.

21. Black Experience Week at University of Iowa (1969).

22. Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941).

23. Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837).

24. Camilla Williams (1919-2012).

25. Dan Hale Williams (1856-1931).

26. Master Sergeant Andrew Bluford (1910-1964).

27. William E. Thomas and Joseph Jackson (1945).

28. Prathia Hall (1940-2002).

29. Henry Lincoln Johnson (1897-1929).

30. Elma Lewis (1921-2004).

31. Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman (1811-1880).

32. Black Women during the Victorian era.

33. Fred Hampton (1948-1969).

34. Edmonia Lewis (1845-1907).

35. Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870).

36. Queen Nzinga (1583-1663).

37. Ras Alula (1827-1897).

38. University of Pennsylvania’s first black sorority (1921).

39. Firefighters at Pearl Harbour.

40. Ted Corbitt (1919-2007).

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