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Black History Year

They Refused To Believe A Black Cowboy Could Be This Genius

Black History Year

PushBlack

History

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

“Cowboy Bill” Pickett created a genius technique – and they hated him for it! This Black cowboy revolutionized rodeo, so they wanted him to hide his Blackness to compete?

Today on 2-Minute Black History, we learn the story of Cowboy Bill Pickett.


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0:33.3

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0:36.3

Cowboy Bill Pickett created a genius technique, and they hated him for it.

0:48.5

This black cowboy revolutionized rodeo.

0:51.9

So they wanted him to hide his blackness to compete?

0:56.2

I'm Sydney from pushblack, and you're tuned in to two-minute black history.

1:01.0

What you didn't learn in school.

1:07.0

Bill Pickett was a rodeo star.

1:10.1

The white supremacy would tell another story.

1:13.1

Although in the early 19th century, one in four cowboys was black, like bass reefs, the

1:19.0

legendary lone ranger, they still tried to erase Pickett's blackness.

1:24.6

He'd invented bulldogging, a widely used technique to gain control in steer wrestling by

1:30.4

biting a cow's lip.

1:32.8

No one had ever seen anything like it done before, and they didn't believe a black man could

1:37.7

be so innovative.

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