Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop Opening

On November 24, 1967, the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop was founded. Opening up as a Bookshop for LGBT literature, the bookshop was used for shopping, browsing the literature, and a meeting place for LGBT rights groups. The group that mainly used the bookshop was the Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods group, also shortened to HYMN (Craig). This group was started by the bookshop owner Craig Rodwell who had been involved in many homosexual rights activist groups before opening his bookshop.

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the city that helped give birth to Blaxploitation. 

The first and often credited as the best example of a Blaxploitation film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was written, produced, and currently being filmed was being filmed in Los Angeles by director Melvin Van Peebles. It was released on March 31, 1971.

Pigford vs Glickman and the Mississippi Delta

The case of Pigford vs Glickman was a lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture or also known as the USDA. This issue was caused by the fact that there was racial discrimination being used against African-American farmers. This was caused by the USDA not giving African-American farmers a loan because they did not have credit. This caused many people to lose their land, revert to share crops or tenant farming. Some areas in the United States were affected more than others by this discrimination and one of these areas is the Mississippi Delta.

The Palais Garnier

The Palais Garnier, a building ran by the Paris Opera Ballet Company or “Opéra national de Paris,” was completed on January 5 of 1875. This building was designed as a lasting mark left by Napoléon III, following a failed assanitation attempt. Located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, it was believed such an open standing building would ensure security as the attempt on the President’s life was still fresh.

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