Compromise of 1877 – The South Restored to Power

Compromise of 1877 – The South Restored to Power

Mississippi Uses Jim Crow Laws to Elect Governor

Mississippi Uses Jim Crow Laws to Elect Governor

October 16, 2019
Lawsuit Alleges Mississippi uses Racially Discriminatory Jim Crow laws to  Choose Statewide Officials. Jim Crow laws that date back to post-reconstruction are still in use in Mississippi today. In Mississippi, in the year 2019, a candidate can win the majority of the vote for Governor and still be denied the right to serve as Governor. […]
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Where’s the American Latino Museum?

Where’s the American Latino Museum?

October 15, 2019
When I was growing up in San Antonio, Mexican culture permeated every aspect of American culture. I heard Spanish every day: at the grocery store, on the playground and, of course, at home. The staples in the school cafeteria included corn dogs, but also cheese enchiladas. Kids of every background broke piñatas at their birthday…
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Justin Trudeau Admits to Wearing Blackface Makeup During High School Performance Following TIME Report

Justin Trudeau Admits to Wearing Blackface Makeup During High School Performance Following TIME Report

October 14, 2019
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized Wednesday night for wearing brownface at a 2001 “Arabian Nights”-themed party—less than two hours after TIME published a previously unreported yearbook photo from the event at the private school where he was teaching. In a new revelation, Trudeau also admitted that he wore blackface “makeup” in high school to…
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China To Suspend Tariff Hikes On U.S. Soybeans and Pork Amid Trade War

China To Suspend Tariff Hikes On U.S. Soybeans and Pork Amid Trade War

October 13, 2019
(BEIJING) — China will lift punitive tariffs imposed on U.S. soybeans and pork in a trade war with Washington, a state news agency said Friday, adding to conciliatory gestures by the two sides ahead of negotiations. China will suspend tariff hikes on soybeans, pork and some other farm goods, the Xinhua News Agency said, citing…
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‘Ghettos’ Didn’t Always Mean Black

‘Ghettos’ Didn’t Always Mean Black

October 12, 2019
Today, for many Americans, the word “ghetto” conjures images of run-down and crime-ridden African American segregated areas—“inner cities,” in a common euphemism. This connotation is relatively recent; it has only become mainstream in the past 70 years or so. Beforehand, the term was primarily associated with Jewish urban quarters, and its changing meaning illustrates the…
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Trump, Ukraine And The Path To The Impeachment Inquiry: A Timeline

Trump, Ukraine And The Path To The Impeachment Inquiry: A Timeline

October 12, 2019
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/12/768935251/trump-ukraine-and-the-path-to-the-impeachment-inquiry-a-timeline
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Raise $12 Million by 2020 for Black Candidates

Raise $12 Million by 2020 for Black Candidates

October 11, 2019
Black candidates received a significant boost in the 2018 midterm elections due to the strategy of the Collective PAC. Founded in 2016, by husband-and-wife team Quentin James and Stefanie Brown James, the Collective PAC is a Political Action Committee whose mission is to build Black political power by raising money for clack candidates. The growing […]
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Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Slavery in Caribbean

Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Slavery in Caribbean

October 6, 2019
Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide [Hilary McD. Beckles] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean
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Over 204 African American Slave Rebellions

Over 204 African American Slave Rebellions

October 6, 2019
The history of chattel slavery from 1619 to 1863 is a history of African-American slave rebellions. It is a history of resistance to the American slave system.  African captives resisted slavery. The resistance to slavery took various forms. These forms of resistance included insurrections on slave ships during the Middle Passage, sabotaging, maiming and killing […]
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CARICOM’S REPARATIONS CAMPAIGN-Leave No One Behind!

CARICOM’S REPARATIONS CAMPAIGN-Leave No One Behind!

October 5, 2019
THE  SUSTAINABLE  DEVELOPMENT principle of “Leaving No-One Behind”– a principle that the UN applies to several categories of persons– is ALSO one of the fundamental principles of our REPARATIONS  CAMPAIGN.This is how I expressed it in my treatise entitled THE   REPARATIONS  MANIFESTO : – “No One Must Be Left Behind” : A fundamental objective of […]
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Take The African American Leadership Quiz

Take The African American Leadership Quiz

October 2, 2019
On random pages and posts throughout this site, versions of The African American Leadership Quiz will be displayed. You will see a list of ten questions displayed and a choice of 4 answers to each question. Test your knowledge of the history of the African American liberation struggle by taking the quiz. But, keep an […]
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Black Durham in the Jim Crow South

Black Durham in the Jim Crow South

September 30, 2019
Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) - Kindle edition by Leslie Brown. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture).
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Stand Up, Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings on Nation, Class and Patriarchy

Stand Up, Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings on Nation, Class and Patriarchy

September 28, 2019
Stand Up, Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings on Nation, Class and Patriarchy - Kindle edition by Sanyika Shakur, Yusef "Bunchy" Shakur. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Stand Up, Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings on Nation, Class and Patriarchy.
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Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

September 28, 2019
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson [George Jackson, Jean Genet, Jonathan Jackson Jr.] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s
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Epic 1972 National Black Political Convention

Epic 1972 National Black Political Convention

September 28, 2019
The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972 [Leonard N. Moore] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. For three days in 1972 in Gary, Indiana, eight thousand American civil rights activists and Black Power leaders gathered at the National Black Political Convention
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Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era (Justice, Power, and Politics)

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era (Justice, Power, and Politics)

September 28, 2019
Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era (Justice, Power, and Politics) [Ashley D. Farmer] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement
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Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (American Ways)

Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (American Ways)

September 24, 2019
Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (American Ways) - Kindle edition by Michael W. Fitzgerald. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (American Ways).
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Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities DVD

Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities DVD

September 24, 2019
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities DVD: n/a, Stanley Nelson: Movies & TV
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A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath

A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath

September 24, 2019
A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath [Truong Nhu Tang] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. An absorbing and moving autobiography...An important addition not only to the literature of Vietnam but to the larger human story of hope
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Sncc’s Rap

Sncc’s Rap

September 24, 2019
Check out Sncc's Rap by Leon Thomas And H. Rap Brown on Amazon Music. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on .
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What Would Ben Say?: Poorer Richard?s America

What Would Ben Say?: Poorer Richard?s America

September 24, 2019
What Would Ben Say?: Poorer Richard?s America [Tom Blair, Tom Brokaw] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. What would Ben Franklin say if he could see us today? For decades, Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack provided sage advice and commentary on eighteenth-century America. Now
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March: Book Three – SNCC

March: Book Three – SNCC

September 24, 2019
March: Book Three [John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
2016 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature
2017 Printz Award Winner
2017 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
2017 Sibert Medal Winner
2017 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner
2017 Walter Award Winner

"One of the Best Books of 2016" - Publishers Weekly

Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis
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U.S. History Detective® Book 1

U.S. History Detective® Book 1

September 24, 2019
U.S. History Detective® Book 1 (9781601442420): Steven Greif: Books
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We’ll Never Turn Back

We’ll Never Turn Back

September 24, 2019
"We'll Never Turn Back" was filmed in Mississippi in 1963 during the voter registration drives of that era. Harvey Richards interviewed share croppers and activists in the voter registration campaign, including SNCC leaders Julian Bond, Bob Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles McLaurin and Hollis Watkins. SNCC leader Charles McDew, chairman of SNCC, appeals for support.
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Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America

Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America

September 24, 2019
Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America [Wesley C. Hogan] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study
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American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News_From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News_From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

September 24, 2019
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News_From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror [Roberto Sirvent, Danny Haiphong, Glen Ford, Ajamu Baraka] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. “Fake news existed long before Donald Trump…. What is ironic is that fake news has indeed been the only news disseminated by the rulers of U.S. empire.”—From American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

According to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong
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The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC

The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC

September 24, 2019
The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC [Cleveland L. Sellers EdD., Robert L. Terrell] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The classic memoir by Cleveland Sellers that offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into his volunteer work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the 1960s civil rights movement. Among histories of the civil rights movement of the 1960s
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern

September 24, 2019
Buy Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern: Read 15 Books Reviews -
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In Struggle : SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s

In Struggle : SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s

September 24, 2019
In Struggle : SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s [Clayborne Carson] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet evenhanded book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC’s evolution
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Assata: An Autobiography

Assata: An Autobiography

September 24, 2019
Assata: An Autobiography [Assata Shakur, Angela Davis] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital

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