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According to this snippets from this book Somalis we’re the first Africans to migrate to NYC and the first to own stores in Harlem New York in the 1940s very interesting part of our history in qurbaha were true pioneers
Somalis were the first African community in NYC
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According to this snippets from this book Somalis we’re the first Africans to migrate to NYC and the first to own stores in Harlem New York in the 1940s very interesting part of our history in qurbaha were true pioneers
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damn height of jim crow era too
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Yeah but I’m saying there were the first group of Africans present in the area in decent numbers these Somali seaman docked off everywhere along the east coast I heard they even established a community in Buffalo NY of a couple hundred people this older dude on twitter even corraberated what I heard from family
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How were we the elites of the world back than? What on earth went wrong?
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They never went to the Jim Crow states they stayed in the east coast the farthest they went out was Chicago where somalis had a small community
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true however i can imagine blatant racism in new york back then as well
Those Somali seamen really got around
This is interesting. we need to do more work finding our history. I know there were a lot of Somalis who used to go to India, and Egypt and many went to UK in the early 20th century.
what benefit is that going to bring now?
History. Why are you against finding the history of Somalis?
I'm not against it but I just don't find the use of history is not going to restore our legacy
Wallahi there are madows walking around with Somali blood around America from the 1900s so interesting
Thank you!!!! My great grandfather immigrated in the 1920s and he entered through Ellis Island .
calar.usc.edu/works/let-me-get-there/issa-somali-1914
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On 14 March 1914, immigration inspectors at Ellis Island recorded the entry of a group of over 60 passengers from Northeast Africa that had just arrived on the S.S. Chicago from Le Havre, France. The group's size coupled with their exoticism would attract attention, including from Augustus Sherman who was prompted to organize the group for multiple photos. As it would turn out, capturing people's attention was perhaps the whole point of their migration to the United States, of which they received a great deal during their time in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. However, they were neither immigrants, migrants, or tourists—categories far out of reach to ordinary Africans for decades to come—but rather "non-immigrant aliens" who's ethnicity and culture would be used as entertainment in choreographed public spectacles. For over one hundred years, the identity of this highly atypical group of arrivals at Ellis Island has remained stubbornly obscure and the story of their long year in the United States never fully told.
From what my father told me was that they while they were treated differently from other ethnicities, they were heavily discriminated just in a different way and wasn’t one-sided. They had to deal with a lot of religious discrimination from both the black & white nationalist groups , due being Muslim and Catholic. The groups they had the biggest issues with were the Irish, Sicilian Italians, Nation of Islam, KKK, and pan Africanists. But to be fair, they were racism asf, too. So it comes full circle.
The main form of racism me & my kin experienced is having to avoid wearing certain attire to not look foreign. For example, my maadow family tells me to not wear scarves to avoid being mistaken for one of those desert people. Ajnabis in general saw them as stuck up aloof odd looking Africans. I’m an Americanized African, rather than an African American.
@webslooth That’s how my Somali ancestors help the USA achieve racial equality and unite black & white Americans
