A Black Holocaust In America

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May

17

1909

America Has Tried And Failed To Explain Its Racism To The World | HuffPost

Thousands of people around the world are sending a dual message to Americans as they protest the death of George Floyd, the latest casualty of the systemic violence against Black residents of the

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

Uncle Tom

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John Parker

John P. Parker was born in 1827 in Norfolk, Virginia. His father was white and his mother was a black slave. John was sold to a slave agent in 1835 and then sold to a slave caravan which took him to Mobile, Alabama where he was purchased by a physician. Working as a house servant, Parker learned to

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Source: Black History Resources

Nov

26

2012

FATHERS ARE NEEDED AND DESERVE TO BE APPRECIATED! | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Unfortunately, because of the unique circumstance surrounding the attacks on Black families in the United States, Black fathers are not always taken

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Early 20th Century Harlem Radicalism

In the article below independent historian Jeffrey Perry discusses his 2008 book on early 20th Century Harlem activist Hubert

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Source: Black Past

In Search of Justice

The country is again at a racial boiling point, as the recent killing of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers have set off a firestorm of protests across the nation including New Orleans and the World where people are crying for

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Source: New Orleans Data News Weekly – The People’s Paper

Slave states and free states

An animation showing the free/slave status of U.S. states and territories, 1789-1861 (see also: separate yearly maps below). The American Civil War began in 1861. The 13th Amendment, effective December 1865, abolished slavery in thje

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Blood On The Leaves and Blood At The Roots | Afro

We should burn some incense, light some sage, and then do to White supremacy what White folks did to Black Wall Street and

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Bio of South African Leader Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

National Party Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination on 6 September 1966, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was the chief architect of Grand Apartheid, which called for the separation of races in South

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Source: ThoughtCo

Telling Secrets, Spying Freedom: A Novel Account of Mary Bowser's Civil War Espionage

In the following account historian and novelist Lois Leveen describes how she came to write her critically acclaimed novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, the account of a black woman who served as a Union spy in the Confederate White House during the American Civil

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Source: Black Past

Remember that Black men vote too –

According to the 2019 the Center for American Progress States of Change report, 78 percent of Black men with a college degree voted for Clinton (16 percent voted for Trump) and 82 percent without a college degree voted Democrat (11 percent voted for

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Source: Florida Courier

The History And Legacy Of Tulsa Race Massacre

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jim Goodwin, the Oklahoma Eagle publisher, about the legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre and the state of race relations

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Source: Stories About Black History

(1901) Congressman George H. White's Farewell Address To Congress

In January 1901, at the beginning of a new century, George H. White was ending his term as a Congressman from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District. Realizing that he was bringing to a close a thirty two year period when nearly forty Southern African Americans sat in Congress, White used

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Source: Black Past

African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968)

African-American Civil Rights Movement redirects here. For the movement in the early 20th century, see African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954). For the movement in the 19th century, see African-American Civil Rights Movement

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Community Reflections on Justice for George Floyd and the 2020 I Can’t Breath Rebellion

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

Black Indians in the United States

Black Indians are people of mixed African-American and Native American heritage, who have strong ties to Native American culture.[2] Many Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands, such as the Narragansett, Pequot, Lumbee and Cherokee, have a significant degree of African

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Plessy v. Ferguson

Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896) was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court decided in 1896. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal.[1] The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1 with the majority opinion

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Source: ThoughtCo

TGR COMMENTARY: Every Department is a Police Department

Almost every day you turn on your radio or television set, local broadcast stations and national news will gather their hand-picked colored commentators to explain to angry protestors why a few bad apple officers are making other law enforcers look really

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Check Out More Than 20 Must-Read Books To Learn More About Black history, Racism And Social Justice – Free Press of Jacksonville

With the demonstrations on countless streets and the conversations taking place in countless homes, bookstores are now experiencing a surge of interest in books about Black history, racism and social

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Let’s rename Army bases honoring Confederate officers –

As commander of the Army of the Mississippi, Braxton Bragg (Fort Bragg, North Carolina) was outmaneuvered in several campaigns; defeated Union forces at Chickamauga but was then routed by U.S. Grant in the battle of

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Source: Florida Courier

(1946) W.E. B. DuBois, “Behold the Land”

On October 20, 1946, seventy-eight year old W.E.B DuBois delivered the address at the closing session of the Southern Youth Legislature in Columbia South Carolina. Although this was one of his last major orations, he used the occasion to inspire his audience to continue the struggle for racial

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Source: Black Past

Oct

20

1946

Trump calls Black Lives Matter a 'symbol of hate' as he digs in on race | The Atlanta Voice

By Wednesday, Trump was calling the words “black lives matter” a “symbol of hate” — a description he’s refused to use for Confederate emblems — that would spoil the “luxury avenue” he once called

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Protesters Support Floyd, Black Lives Matter on 3 Continents | Afro

By RICK RYCROFT and FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Prologue: Selected Articles | National Archives

Prologue: Selected Articles

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Source: Archives Library Information Center (ALIC)

August Wilson

August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each work in the series is set in a different decade, and depicts comic and tragic aspects of the

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Source: ThoughtCo

Afro-Uruguay: A Brief History

In the following account University of Pittsburgh historian George Reid Andrews provides an introduction to the history of the population of African ancestry in

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Source: Black Past

Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States [5] that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.[6] It prohibited unequal application of voter registration

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Source: BlackHistory.com

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

March on Washington redirects here. For other marches on Washington, D.C., see List of protest marches on

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Local Activists Seek Defunding Of Police

In the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, Minn., the Sacramento community and social justice organizations have been leaning heavily on the governments of the city and county of

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

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