In 1963, America's Georgia, 15 black girls joined a protest.

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Negroes, hit your tickets in the back.

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Black is our favorite color for multiple reasons.

The beautiful shades of black that make up our melanin are truly unmatched,

but there is another color that's rooted in black history.

Here's why we should also be rocking lavender.

This is two minute black history.

What you didn't learn in school.

Historically lavender was used in ancient Egypt by pharaohs and high priests, lavender was infused into their oils,

perfumes, medicines, and embalming practices.

Throughout the early 1900s, lavender was associated with the LGBTQ community.

Anti-Blackness went out of its way to police queerness and the culture of fear was referred to as the lavender scare.

But by 1969, black trans women and drag queens and kings had had enough,

leading the Stonewall rebellion. Throwing bricks, stilettoes and punches at police,

black queer activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Stormay Delaveri showed they refused to be silenced.

A month later, an LGBTQ march was held honoring Stonewall and lavender

adornments could be seen throughout the crowd a reclamation of power.

lavender is also politicized by author Alice Walker who stated woman, Womanist is to feminist, as purple is to lavender.

Walker's metaphor was commenting on the feminist movement centering white womenhood.

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