# @realdlhughley on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CswPEybJZDS
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- **Posted:** 2023-05-27T16:46:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** realdlhughley (@realdlhughley) — https://gondola.cc/realdlhughley

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Who knew?? 🏇🏽🏇🏽🏇🏽
That’s why we continue to #TeachThemWhereWeCanReachThem #blackhistory #blackhistoryisamericanhistory 

sallymcmullin 

🤎 ‘BLACK HISTORY  We Should All Know’

👉🏾OLIVER LEWIS won the first KENTUCKY DERBY (May 1875)

👉🏾 He rode ARISTIDES which was trained by a Black horse trainer ANSEL WILLIAMSON

👉🏾13 of the 15 jockeys were Black

👉🏾15 of the first 28 Kentucky Derby Races were won by BLACK JOCKEYS

👉🏾 Oliver was born December 1856

👉🏾 sources: KET YouTube + Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture + Kentucky.gov + Kentucky Derby YouTube + BBC

📸 Kentake + Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture + Painting by Ed Troye / Virginia Museum of Fine Arts via African American Horse Stories (Ansel Williamson)

#BlackHistory #BlackStories #BlackFirsts  #OliverLewis #AnselWilliamson #KentuckyDerby #Aristides #KYDerby

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kyderby, kentuckyderby, oliverlewis, teachthemwherewecanreachthem, blackfirsts, aristides, blackstories, blackhistoryisamericanhistory, blackhistory, anselwilliamson

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