February 20, 1956 ~ Arrest warrants based on a 34-year-old anti-boycott statute were issued for 89 people in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Civil Rights Class week 4
“Our system isn’t broken — it’s designed to do what it’s doing: produce measurable inequity.” [Gary Chambers, a candidate for the US Senate representing Louisiana, in his latest campaign video, “Scars and Bars,” in which he discusses the cruel and destructive legacy of the Confederacy and burns a Confederate flag] I am the American heartbreak—Continue reading “Civil Rights Class week 4”
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 18, 1965 ~ Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old Black man, was shot by a white cop after police attacked a peaceful civil rights protest in Marion, Alabama and died eight days later.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 17, 1947 ~ In Greenville, South Carolina, a mob of white men lynched Willie Earle, a 24-year-old black man. The mob slashed chunks of flesh from his body before blasting him with a shotgun; the 31 men charged were all acquitted.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 16, 1847 ~ Missouri outlawed the education of black people and the immigration of free black people into the state.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 15, 1804 ~ New Jersey passed gradual emancipation act, becoming the last Northern state to abolish slavery.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 14, 1945 ~ All-white grand jury refused to indict any of the six white med accused of raping Mrs. Recy Taylor in Abbeville, Alabama; they are never prosecuted.
Civil Rights Class Week 3
Why are black people still fighting for civil rights in america? Between 1492 and 1820 10 million people entered the “new wold” and about 7.7 million were enslaved Africans. Noble-status = living with out the need to work Mestizos – person of mixed origin (Spanish colonizers could marry ingenious or African legally by 1514) (childrenContinue reading “Civil Rights Class Week 3”
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 13, 1960 ~Nashville students launched sit-in demonstrations to demand an end to racial segregation at lunch counters; Fisk University student Diane Nash emerges as a leader and joins the Freedom Rides in 1961.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 12, 1901 ~After having rejected it in 1865, Delaware ratified Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. February 12, 1809 – Abraham Lincoln was born. Lincoln was the nation’s sixteenth president, leading the country from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865, a little over a month into his second term. He piloted the countryContinue reading “Day in the History of Racial Injustice”
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