Category: Black History

Attorney General Barr is testifying to the House. His opening statement shows he’s ready to lie

But of course the entire investigation into the Trump campaign ties to Russia is part of what Barr is in the attorney general job to undo. As Barr puts it, he’s doing “everything I could to get to the bottom of the grave abuses involved in the bogus ‘Russiagate’ scandal,” and it’s just those partisan Democrats

John Lewis to Lie in State in the Capitol Rotunda

Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia and a civil rights icon, will lie in state Monday in the Capitol Rotunda, the first Black lawmaker to receive one of the highest American honors, before a viewing for the public to be held outside.With the Capitol closed to the public amid the coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Lewis will

Compromise of 1877 – The South Restored to Power

APPIP ERROR: amazonproducts[ TooManyRequests|The request was denied due to request throttling. Please verify the number of requests made per second to the Amazon Product Advertising API. ] The Hayes Tilden Compromise of 1877 What was the Compromise of 1877, and why did it irrevocably alter the fate of African Americans in the US? In 1876

Over 204 African American Slave Rebellions

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

Take The African American Leadership Quiz

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

Black Durham in the Jim Crow South

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

Epic 1972 National Black Political Convention

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

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: n/a, Stanley Nelson: Movies & TV

Sncc’s Rap

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U.S. History Detective® Book 1

U.S. History Detective® Book 1 (9781601442420): Steven Greif: Books

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

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

By removing victims from lynching photos, an artist emphasizes those erased from history

“Erased Lynching Series: der Wild West Show,” (Set 1) by Ken Gonzalez-Day, 2006. (Courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles) An old black-and-white photograph shows a crowd of people gathered around something, but it is not clear just what. There’s something eerie about it but you don’t really know why. The photograph

How Washingtonians have shaped and reshaped one neighborhood over more than five decades

Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael, (2nd from left), visiting Barry Farm Dwellings in 1967 with community organizers from the Southeast Neighborhood House, including Phil Perkins (far left). (Image courtesy Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution The story of Washington, D.C. is really a collection of story lines, each one focused on a different neighborhood. While

W. E. B. Du Bois Sociologist, Historian, Writer – Founding Father of the NAACP…

W. E. B. Du Bois (February 23, 1868 — August 27, 1963) Leading Theoretician of African American History  William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was one of the vital influential figures in American civil rights historical past. He launched the activist Niagara Flow in 1905 after which cofounded the National Affiliation for the Development of Colored Individuals (NAACP) in

A twisted interpretation of historically black schools paves the method for a failed market-driven schooling insurance.

A twisted interpretation of historically black colleges paves the way for a failed market-driven education policy. Read More

Black People Born in Suriname Before 1820 – Where Are the Records?

African American Records hard to find birth certificate from ancestors of African people who experience the slavery time in Surinam. Black people born in Surinam before 1820. This makes it so difficult to really know your own background. What part of Africa did I came from. Were those people Hebrews. The Black Hebrews that experience

Sorting the Mail, Blazing a Trail: African-American Women in World War

Sorting the Mail, Blazing a Trail: African-American Women in World War II #The African American Experience [green_message]Source: http://socl.club/1hWHzl [/green_message] Follow me on Facebook at http://ift.tt/1AYXHQm

Jordan Gives $5 Million to Nat. African American Museum

Michael Jordan Donates $5 Million to National Museum of African American History and Culture – NBC4 Washington Retired NBA player Michael Jordan has donated $5 million to the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Sports Gallery, according to the Smithsonian. Other notable athletes, including baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron and former … This

Marcus Garvey: Black Nationalism – Fast Facts & History

Controversial crusader Marcus Garvey was determined to see African people take pride in and ownership of their race. Find out more about this legendary ...

The Origins of the Black Panther Party: History, Facts, Goals, Platform (2006)

David Hilliard (born May 15, 1942) was a member of the Black Panther Party. He was Chief of Staff in the party. He is currently a visiting instructor at the ...

James Armistead aka James Lafayette

When we say African Americas, they are people residing in the United States of America and are additionally commonly referred to as Black Americans. They are referred to as such because they originated from any of the so-called black populations of the country Africa. We are aware, of course, that there are African Americans who

Marcus Garvey: Black Nationalist (Notable Americans)

Marcus Garvey: Black Nationalist (Notable Americans) [Peggy Caravantes] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Profiles Marcus Garvey, a self-educated black man who worked to end world-wide discrimination against Africans

Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency

Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency [Charlie Savage] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state Barack Obama campaigned on a promise of change from George W. Bush's global war on terror. Yet from indefinite detention and drone strikes

Fire on the Prairie: Chicago’s Harold Washington and the Politics of Race

Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race [Gary Rivlin] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Dust jacket notes: Chicago--the city whose name is synonymous with urban politics; the city of sharply divided ethnic and racial enclaves; the city whose police force shocked America during the 1968 Democratic convention and

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems - Kindle edition by Langston Hughes. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Dream Keeper and Other Poems.

A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young

A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young [Andrew Young] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The stirring spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young--civil rights activist, minister, and statesman--show how God's hand led him through some of the most significant experiences of 20th-century America. Filled with eyewitness anecdotes

African Historical Ruins – you never see on TV part 1 / 4

We have all been LIED TO. BLACK YELLOW WHITE OR BROWN people it is time to wake up and DIG UP THE TRUTH. AFRICAN HISTORICAL ...

Martin R Delany: The Birth of Black Nationalism

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A Time to Speak, A Time to Act

A Time to Speak, A Time to Act [Julian bond] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Book by Julian bond

Black Leaders on Leadership: Conversations with Julian Bond (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

Black Leaders on Leadership: Conversations with Julian Bond (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) [P. Leffler] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Drawing on a wealth of oral interviews, Conversations on Black Leadership uses the lives of prominent African Americans to trace the contours of Black leadership in America. Included here are fascinating accounts from