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Black history is American History
March 10 is also the National Day of Rest for Black Women
I wish I would've gotten assigned this while I was in school lol
One of the most impactful speeches of that convention?
A 30 year old Jesse Louis Jackson who brought down the house with his rousing "It's Nation Time!" speech as the recent widows of Malcolm X (Betty Shabazz) and Martin Luther King Jr (Coretta Scott King) sat behind him
The Defeat of Black Power. Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972 by Leonard Moore
54 years ago today on March 10, 1972...something significant took place.
The who's who of the Black community gathered in Gary, Indiana for the Black Political Convention.
Some 10,000 delegates showed up to create an agenda for change going forward, and was the height of the Black Power Era
I definitely live the most mundane and boring life in existence lol
Northern Illinois and NW Indiana, yall stay weather aware today.
It's looking a little nasty
One of the best to ever do anything ever and one of my first real heroes! Fuck yeah Harriet Tubman, you were amazing and one hell of a human.
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In honor of Harriet Tubman, name someone she would’ve left behind. I’ll start. ALL of Young Money Cash Money
The $20 bill
Happy Harriet Tubman Day to all those who celebrate.
The pamphlet can be read at gutenberg.org/ebooks/14975
(Ida Wells was *amazing*)
A great read about the sad fact of our history.
Really great thread on such an important person in our history.
Black History is American History
#WomensHistoryMonth
The final chapter of our current book Conjure: Black Women Ending Slavery talks about this massacre. I have also co-authored a Law School textbook chapter on this with Angela Harris.
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I have heard of it.
But no, I did not hear about the women erasure. Although that doesnt surprise me because women were involved in nearly every revolt, if not all
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it's okay. lol, you guys are the scholars and I learn it all from.the work you do. Im just the layperson intermediary who might be able to reach the people you might not.
Telling stories to people who may not read it elsewhere.
Maybe it'll inspire them like it did me
her autobiography
22. So what happened to the People's Grocery?
The white residents ransacked it. Tore it apart.
And then it was sold to William Barrett, the owner of the white grocery store across the street.
The whole thing was really about the audacity of Black self-sufficiency and jealousy
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Chapter 6 in Ida B Wells-Barnett's autobiography entitled: Lynching at the Curve. Which recounts what happened at the People's Grocery and the lynchings that followed
Chapter 6 of Paula Giddings' biography on Ida B Wells-Barnett entitled: City of Three Murdered Men." Which recounts the context behind the lynchings and the event itself
21. "The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched."
20. "...which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life."
19. But there's one line that has always had the biggest impact on me, so I will quote it in full:
The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection...
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
18. Ida B Wells would go on to write a pamphlet called:
"Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases."
She excoriated the violence of the South. Tabulating the lynchings and correcting the stories.
And exposing the truth behind the so-called (g)rapes committed by Black men on white women
17. This event would place Well's on a trajectory that would have her exiled from Memphis, her newspaper destroyed, her life threatened, and to spend the rest of her life exposing the violence and hypocrisy of the South.
THOUSANDS of Blacks left Memphis after that and went West
16. Moss uttered:
"Tell my people to go West, there is no justice for them here.
This event changed a young teacher and journalist's life forever.
Ida B Wells was best friends with Moss & his wife. She was their children's godmother
15. Nine of them went in and retrieved Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and William Stewart.
They dragged them from their cells and brought them to a rail yard outside Memphis.
Despite putting up a noble fight, I will not relay the details here.
Thomas Moss's last words were recorded...