MOMENTS in HISTORY, and Other Stuff.

Previously posted on my Facebook Page.

MOMENTS in HISTORY. The Great Purge, also known as the Year of '37, was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin's campaign to solidify his power over the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the state; the purges were also designed to remove the remaining influence of Leon Trotsky as well as other prominent political rivals within the party. It occurred from August 1936 to March 1938. (Photo: CTTO.) 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

FAMOUS MOMENTS. Woodstock. Music festival held from August 15–18, 1969 on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York, which was 40 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock. The event attracted more than 400,000 attendees. The festival has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history as well as a defining event for the counterculture generation. Woodstock inspired my Traveling Bonfires and “Bonfires for Peace” concert events. ☮️🎼☮️

FAMOUS PEOPLE. Sacheen Littlefeather was booed at the Oscars in 1973 after she refused the best actor award on Marlon Brando's behalf in protest of Hollywood's depictions of Native Americans. Sacheen was born Maria Louise Cruz in 1946 (d. 2022) Salinas, California. Ms Littlefeather repeatedly claimed that her father had White Mountain Apache and Pascua Yaqui ancestry. Yet others claim she was of Spanish-Mexican ancestry. Her racial identity is still a mystery though. 📷📸📲

FAMOUS EVENTS. On 28 August 1963, an estimated 250,000 participants gathered for the March on Washington DC for Jobs and Freedom. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. At the march, final speaker Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism. (Photo credit: Warren K. Leffler or Associated Press.) ☮️☮️☮️

FAMOUS PLACES. Washington Square Park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood in New York City. The land was once divided by a narrow marshy valley through which Minetta Creek ran. In the early 17th century, a Native American village known as Sapohanikan was nearby. By the mid-17th century, the land on each side of the Minetta was used as farmland by the Dutch. The Dutch gave the land, then outside the city limits (Wall Street) to Angolan residents of the colony. 🗽⛲️🗽