How Two Cousins And Their Adventures Helped Pioneer The Black Travel Movement
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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The cousins were setting sail for the trip of a lifetime. They expected scenic train rides, gondola rides, and eating their way through new cuisines, but something eerily familiar from home followed them on the journey.
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| 0:00.0 | The Monopoly game at McDonald's is back. |
| 0:03.0 | There's over 2 million pounds worth of cash prizes to be won. |
| 0:06.0 | And a chance to get your hands on some epic prizes. |
| 0:09.0 | Go on. It's your go. |
| 0:11.0 | 18 plus UK ends 21st of October. |
| 0:15.0 | Selected menu items. |
| 0:16.0 | App may be required. |
| 0:17.0 | May depend on winning moment. |
| 0:18.0 | See victory rules.co. |
| 0:19.0 | . |
| 0:20.0 | The cousins were setting sale be required. May depend on winning moment. Seymictoryrules.co.uk. |
| 0:22.6 | The cousins were setting sail for the trip of a lifetime. They expected scenic train rides, |
| 0:28.6 | gondola rides, and eating their way through new cuisines, but something eerily familiar from home |
| 0:36.6 | followed them on the journey. |
| 0:38.3 | This is Two-Minute Black History, What You Didn't Learn in School. |
| 0:47.3 | Robert Thomas and Florence Sinstak Giddily packed their bags, ready to embark on their biggest adventure ever. |
| 1:01.0 | They just graduated from the illustrious Fisk University and their Uncle Robert, the publisher of the Chicago Defender, gifted them the experience of a lifetime. |
| 1:10.0 | In 1931, the duo traversed Europe for nearly a year, experienced it all from seeing Josephine |
| 1:17.7 | Baker perform in Paris to a winding train ride through the Italian countryside to listening |
| 1:23.8 | to live music in London's Hyde Park. |
| 1:27.3 | Readers back home escaped to places they've never been through the Cousins Word, |
| 1:31.3 | who wrote about their travels in the Chicago Defender, |
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