#JuliaHughes & #HaroldColeman | A Sovereignty Movement #JuneTeenth
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Blackdomites advertises and Harold Coleman managed marketing.
In 1899, Dr. Julia Pearl Hughes opened her own drugstore at 937 Christian Street in South Philadelphia, called Hughes Pharmacy. On February 16, 1900, Dr. Hughes married James Harold Coleman, a traveling newspaper salesman from Virginia. The couple moved to Newport News, Virginia, where the now Dr. Coleman opened another pharmacy. The couple also started another venue, the Columbia Chemical Company in 1909. The company was established to produce and market a hair care product called “Hair-Vim,” but they dissolved the business in just one year. In 1912, James Coleman got a job as a colonizer agent, helping to bring black settlers to a projected all black town in Chaves County, New Mexico called Blackdom, and he relocated there. Dr. Coleman moved to Washington, D.C. to stay with her relatives. By 1914, Dr. Hughes started a weekly newspaper with Timothy Thomas Fortune, called the Weekly Sun. She also returned to work on her hair care products and established the Hair Care-Vim Chemical Company in the basement of her family’s home. Dr. Coleman and her husband were divorced in 1916. The couple had no children.
Support Blackdom Thesis with the Illuminated Baseball T-shirt, our first edition design, in a soft vintage wash in men’s fit. Also available in women’s.
Fabric: Super soft vintage feel
Color: Charcoal grey sleeves and heather grey body
Content: 50% polyester, 25% cotton, 25% rayon
Care: Machine wash cold with like colors. Tumble dry on low