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2011 Hong Kong 1st July demonstration
Location, Yee Wo Street, Causeway Bayi, Hong Kong
Rollei 35RF
Leitz Wetzlar Summaron M 35mm f/2.8
Leitz Light Yellow Filter
Rollei Retro 100
Maybe you have to be from San Francisco to really appreciate this sign.
Speed Queens should *definitely* be given all the space they need to do their laundry.
Exposition : The color line
Du mardi 04 octobre 2016 au dimanche 15 janvier 2017
Quel rôle a joué l’art dans la quête d’égalité et d’affirmation de l’identité noire dans l’Amérique de la Ségrégation ? L'exposition rend hommage aux artistes et penseurs africains-américains qui ont contribué, durant près d’un siècle et demi de luttes, à estomper cette "ligne de couleur" discriminatoire.
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« Le problème du 20e siècle est le problème de la ligne de partage des couleurs ».
Si la fin de la Guerre de Sécession en 1865 a bien sonné l’abolition de l'esclavage, la ligne de démarcation raciale va encore marquer durablement la société américaine, comme le pressent le militant W.E.B. Du Bois en 1903 dans The Soul of Black Folks. L’exposition The Color Line revient sur cette période sombre des États-Unis à travers l’histoire culturelle de ses artistes noirs, premières cibles de ces discriminations.
Des thématiques racistes du vaudeville américain et des spectacles de Minstrels du 19e siècle à l’effervescence culturelle et littéraire de la Harlem Renaissance du début du 20e siècle, des pionniers de l’activisme noir (Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington) au réquisitoire de la chanteuse Billie Holiday (Strange Fruit), ce sont près de 150 ans de production artistique – peinture, sculpture, photographie, cinéma, musique, littérature… – qui témoignent de la richesse créative de la contestation noire.
This bus ticket was created specifically for the demonstration against segregated bus lines in Jerusalem. The top line, which is not actually part of the ticket, reads "Bus ticket for women. Seating in the rear portion only."
Bevelry Tatum and Bill Kurtz shared their perspectives in the panel on Segregation in American Schools and Its Impact on the Achievement Gap.
Hitler was reported to admire Dixie's dictates for enforcing day-to-day white supremacy. Hitler believed that the Bill of Rights was irrelevant to American life and that the United States owed its secret strength to state laws that legally institutionalized segregation and oppression.
In 1940 he studied the Nazi Heinz Kloss’s survey of racial laws in the United States, Das Volksgruppenrecht in den Vereinigten Staates von Amerika. According to Kloss, “a unified national America was an illusion”; state legislation had worked to keep races separate and minority groups pure.
Others quoted Hitler as believing that America’s national promise had died when the Confederacy lost the Civil War. According to an ex-Nazi’s memoir, Hitler thought that “historical logical and sound sense” dictated that the Confederacy emerge victorious. The Union victory was a perversion of history that left the United States structurally damaged.
With Das Volksgruppenrecht, Jewish and African American comparisons came full circle: Nazi Germany held up the U.S. South as a model for its racial persecution.
The comparison that many U.S. whites were unwilling to draw, the Nazis drew for them.
~ from Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
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"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
~ Alexander Stephens, Cornerstone speech, March 21, 1861
If there had not been the desire to maintain slavery, there would have been no Confederacy and no Confederate flag at all. The Confederacy arose from something completely hideous: the feeling in persons that other human beings should be their property .... The reason the Southern states seceded from the Union in 1861 was to be able to preserve slavery .... South Carolina might just as well display a bullwhip and auction block at its statehouse, because these and the Confederate flag stand for the same thing.
. . . You cannot fight 'honorably' in behalf of something that is entirely dishonorable. To say one can is like saying Germans fought honorably in the cause of Hitler. And some German soldiers likely 'fought bravely' — but the bravery was in behalf of subjugating and annihilating human beings; it was bravery in behalf of gas chambers. And the bravery of the Confederate soldier was bravery in behalf of a Black child's being torn from her mother and sold."
~ Ellen Reiss
The series Plucked is an investigation into the duality of the home, urban alienation, social segregation and human relationships. This duality of the home extends further, adding layers to the series, incorporating the ethics of both social documentary and staged photography, as well as the possible cognitive dissonant experience of the viewer. This dissonance was built around notions of ambiguity and the uncanny.
The home is often known to be a safe space where one can be private and intimate. The home has a sentiment of security that is built around the fact that we can seclude ourselves, distancing oneself from the interference and surveillance of others. It is with this point that its most problematic duality is made evident. The home is a harbourer of some of humanities gravest crimes. These crimes occur behind closed doors, including physical, sexual and psychological abuse.
The element of time and death is also present in the repetition of flowers throughout the series. Here flowers act as a subtle metaphor concerning the duality of life and death, of which are inseparable through time, not unlike photography itself. The act of plucking/picking flowers is death and once the plucked flower is severed from its life force, it is subject to a slow, often beautiful, process of dying. This dialogue with death has the ability to create notions of the uncanny. By depicting something that is familiar, yet strange, or appealing and repulsive at the same time is often regarded as a signifier of the depiction of the uncanny and raises contradictory beliefs (cognitions) for the viewer, encouraging the viewer to create his/her own opinion, which is hopefully based on the emotion that the photograph offers the viewer.
The images are talking about the everyday with a calm and beautiful surface, but that, on closer inspection, raises question about the apparent peaceful depiction, juxtaposing the viewer's emotional response to the photographs with a subtler sinister undercurrent. When this emotion is strong enough to allow the viewer to travel back through their personal history, to where a similar emotion was encountered, the viewer is removed from the physical object, that is the photograph, and the situation it is depicting. This journey is a personal reflection that considers social truth. This is emphasised by the deliberate open-ended narratives and cognitive duality of the series, encouraging a subjective journey through the work rather than a dictated reading. The subjectivity is also important in recognising scenarios through the viewer's experience of the everyday. This is also in dialogue with the viewer's memory vault of images derived from painting, cinema and TV and helps the viewer in understanding a visual, gestural language. It is related to a subliminal aesthetic pleasure that is not, as I understand it, dependent on authenticity, hence verifying the staged documentary photograph as a relevant approach concerning social understanding and investigation. By plucking specific moments of everyday narrative my work is confronting the way in which social truth should be depicted.
All images © Geir Moseid
Shenandoah's 1934 master plan for development called for separate facilities for black visitors. However, at the opening of the 1937 season African American visitors were still dining in the staff areas of the "for whites only" facilities and there were no overnight accommodations. Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, prodded park management and the concessioner, Virginia Skyline Company, to "get started." Finally in 1939, the Lewis Mountain area opened for the "exclusive use of the Negroes."
However, the Department of the Interior's solicitor pointed out that segregation in Shenandoah was unconstitutional. Supporting this view, Ickes insisted that integration efforts begin. So, in the same year that Shenandoah opened its separate facility, Pinnacles Picnic Grounds opened to all races.
An exhibit at the Harry F. Byrd Sr. Visitor Center at Big Meadows on Mile 51 of Skyline Drive tells the stories of Shenandoah's establishment and development. Shenandoah National Park, traversing the Blue Ridge Mountains in north-central Virginia, was established as a National Park on December 256, 1935. The park stretches for 105 miles along Skyline Drive, with the Shenandoah River and its broad valley to the west and the rolling hills of the Virginia Piedmont to the east. Mostly forested, the park features 200,000 acres of wetlands, waterfalls and rocky peaks.
1.The theme for this poster is segregate. The cast shadow represents the separation of segregation, and the upwards direction of the text represents that Skip saw past the skin color.
2.The theme on this poster is colorblind. I know colorblind implies no color at all, but by putting al the text in tints and tones of yellow this represents colorblind. The repetition of smarter emphasizes Skip’s ability to see past segregation.
3.This was originally one of my favorites but I think the soft purple/blue killed it. I think I need to change it back to red text. This poster’s theme is unity. The headline texts interlacing with the body text represents the unity.
4.This poster’s theme is also unity. The pink of course is not the best choice, but I wanted to see what it would look like with color. The large O’s and their repetition represent unity.
5.This poster is colorblind and somewhat segregation. The black and white paper texture is to show how everyone is made of the same material, but just different colors, and the fold in the paper to show the severance Skip experienced from the reality of that time.
6.Lastly, this one represents colorblind as well. This is my weakest I feel, but I almost like the simplicity. Colorblind is shown in the use of only black and white.
I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history of People of Color.
Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions. I look forward to reading them!
June 1, 1951
Photo shoot of the segregated all African-American truck company with their new apparatus.
Florida State Senator Geraldine F. Thompson poses in front of three large portraits of Ms. American Florida Erica Dunlap, Ray Charles and Angela Basset born in St. Petersburg inside the Wells' Built Museum of African American History and Culture. The Wells's Built Museum was preserved to promote African history, culture and tradition. Senator Thompson was instrumental to the preservation of Wells' Built Museum.
There is a TV drama forthcoming on WowWow TV on racial discrimination, segregation versus integration issues. Here is a collection of cast members taken in between production shooting. It was perfect weather as well being an unusually warm day (19ºC) for early February. Every one seemed to enjoy themselves, except there was a lot of excess standing, so our legs became quite tired and sore.
Shoot location was Showa Memorial Park near Nishi Tachikawa Station, Tokyo, Japan. Anyone who is a subscriber to Wow Wow and is interested in viewing the movie, please send me a personal message. Cheers…..
本日のプロダクションは人種差別の主テーマとしてWowWowテレビで近い将来に放映する予定です。この写真集は撮影ロケでその番組のキャストメンバーです。天気も最適で最高でした。19ºCは２月の昇順ごろとしてとても例外的です。皆さんは楽しんでいましたが立つことはかなりありましてメンバーの一部の足み疲れてきて痛くなりました。
撮影ロケは西立川の昭和記念公園です。その番組予定の詳細を知りたい場合はメッセージを送って下さい。
One of the three oldest African-American cemeteries in Houston.
www.historictexas.net/cemeteries/3c/2h/harris/harris-mark...
There is a TV drama forthcoming on WowWow TV on racial discrimination, segregation versus integration issues. Here is a collection of cast members taken in between production shooting. It was perfect weather as well being an unusually warm day (19ºC) for early February. Every one seemed to enjoy themselves, except there was a lot of excess standing, so our legs became quite tired and sore.
Shoot location was Showa Memorial Park near Nishi Tachikawa Station, Tokyo, Japan. Anyone who is a subscriber to Wow Wow and is interested in viewing the movie, please send me a personal message. Cheers…..
本日のプロダクションは人種差別の主テーマとしてWowWowテレビで近い将来に放映する予定です。この写真集は撮影ロケでその番組のキャストメンバーです。天気も最適で最高でした。19ºCは２月の昇順ごろとしてとても例外的です。皆さんは楽しんでいましたが立つことはかなりありましてメンバーの一部の足み疲れてきて痛くなりました。
撮影ロケは西立川の昭和記念公園です。その番組予定の詳細を知りたい場合はメッセージを送って下さい。
A cropped image of Spottswood Bolling, the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that outlawed segregation in District of Columbia public schools, is shown after the Court decision May 18, 1954.
Bolling was a 15-year-old sophomore at the time of the decision.
For more information and related images, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/564wW3
Read the story of of DC desegregation from the pickets to the courts: washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/dcs-fighting-bar...
The photographer is unknown. The image is an auction find.
An African American student stands in a classroom at St. Dominics High School May 18, 1954 in Washington, D.C.
The parochial school system in the city was integrated long before the public schools. The photo was taken in the wake of the Bolling v. Sharpe decision that outlawed segregation in the District’s public schools.
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Read the story of of DC desegregation from the pickets to the courts: washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/dcs-fighting-bar...
The photographer is unknown. The image is an auction find.
"No Parking for the Jew Tuesday 9-12 odd weeks"
This one caught me *really* off guard - I reacted immediately to it, and it took a minute to realize it was done like bille tomat signs in Copenhagen, but here playing on Parkering förbjuden... - or No Parking...
Londonderry West Bank Loyalists Still Under Seige - No Surrender; Protestant populated Fountain Estate enclave, Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland
At age 15 in 1955, Ala. she refused to give up her seat in violation of the segregation law there. She was arrested 9 months before Rosa Parks, but because of her pregnancy the powers that be decided that she would not be a "reputable" face for the CIvil Rights Movement
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Students gather in the courtyard of Washington's McKinley High School October 5 to listen to a talk by their principal, Charles E. Bish (back to camera, wearing dark suit).
He has turned to read a sign carried by one of the students. Though police took steps to curb a growing wave of demonstrations against racial integration in public schools, large groups of students continued to remain away from school and to demonstrate for the return of segregation. [Original caption]
The photograph was taken October 5, 1954 following the District’s decision to proceed with integration following the Supreme Court’s decision in the Bolling v. Sharpe case in May 1954.
The suit was brought by the Consolidated Parents Group, composed of working class African Americans living east of the Anacostia River.
The Group waged a seven-year fight beginning in 1947 to improve conditions for African Americans that began with a boycott of deplorable conditions at the all black Browne Junior High on Benning Road and ended with the Court’s school desegregation order.
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Read the story of of DC desegregation from the pickets to the courts: washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/dcs-fighting-bar...
The photographer is unknown. Credit: :© Bettmann/CORBIS
The Niagara Movement was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter.
It was named for the "mighty current" of change the group wanted to effect, and Niagara Falls, the Canadian side of which was where the first meeting took place in July 1905.
The Niagara Movement was a call for opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement, and it was opposed to policies of accommodation and conciliation promoted by African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington.
The attendees of the inaugural meeting drafted a "Declaration of Principles", which was primarily the work of Du Bois and Trotter. The philosophies of the group were in direct contrast to more conciliatory philosophies of Booker T. Washington that proposed patience over militancy.
The declaration clearly outlined the group's philosophy and its demands; politically, socially and economically. It began by first describing the progress that the "Negro-Americans" had made "particularly the increase of intelligence, the buy-in of property, the checking of crime, the uplift in home life, the advance in literature and art, and the demonstration of constructive and executive ability in the conduct of great religious, economic and educational institutions".
It called for blacks to be granted manhood suffrage. It called for equal treatment for all American citizens alike. Very specifically, it demanded equal economic opportunities, in the rural districts of south, which amounted for many blacks indebted to whites and resulted in "virtual slavery", or in terms of all of south so that they had the ability to "earn a decent living".
On the subject of education the authors declared that not only should it be made free, it should be made compulsory. Higher education, they declared, should be governed independently of class or race, and they demanded action to be taken to improve "high school facilities".
This Du Bois thought was most important because "either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States".
The document also demanded that judges be selected independently of their race and that the criminals, white or black should be given equal punishments for their respective crime. In his address to the nation W.E.B. Du Bois stated, "We are not more lawless than the white race; we [are] more often arrested, convicted and mobbed. We want justice, even for criminals and outlaws." It called for the outright abolition of the convict lease system. In this system, during times when there wasn't enough space in the prisons, convicts were leased out to work as cheap laborers for "railway contractors, mining companies and those who farm large plantations". Urging others to return to the faith of "our fathers", it appealed for everyone to be considered equal and free.
The declaration also targeted the treatment blacks received from labor unions, often oppressed and not fully protected by their employers nor granted a permanent employment. It validated the already announced affirmation that such protest against outright injustice would not cease until such discrimination did. Secondly, Du Bois and Trotter stated the irrationality of discriminating based on one's "physical peculiarities" whether it be place of birth or color of skin. Perhaps one's ignorance, or immortality, poverty or even diseases are legitimate excuses, but not the matters that we have no control over.
Near its end, the document goes on to condemn the Jim Crow laws, rejection of black soldiers in the navy and in military academies, the reinforcement of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments protecting the rights of blacks, and the "unchristian" behaviors of churches that segregate and show prejudice to their black brothers. The Declaration of Principles of 1905 ended by thanking those who "stand for equality" and the advancement of this cause.
In the wake of a major race riot in Springfield, Illinois in August 1908, a number of prominent white civil rights activists called for a major conference on race relations. Held in New York in early 1909, the conference laid the foundation for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which was formally established in 1910. In 1911, Du Bois (who was appointed the NAACP's director of publications) recommended that the remaining membership of the Niagara Movement support the NAACP's activities.[
The house with the Japanese-style gate is one of Somerville's inaccessible early childhood learning centers. It seems that, after being contacted by the state, they took down their signs. This one is connected with the Middlesex YMCA, which is to the left of that house.
Reflections in Black and White exhibit - Cape Fear Museum - January 30, 2017 - New Hanover County, NC
Reflections in Black and White, features a selection of informal black and white photographs taken by black and white Wilmingtonians after World War II before the Civil Rights movement helped end legalized segregation. Visitors will have a chance to compare black and white experiences and reflect on what people’s lives were like in the region during the latter part of the Jim Crow era.
Examine mid-century cameras and photographic equipment and experience the “thrill” of opening a replica camera store photo envelope, a rare experience in today’s digital world. Flip through some recreated pages from Claude Howell’s scrapbooks, and take your own photograph in a 1950s setting.
Reflections in Black and White features selections from four large photographic collections:
•African American photographer Herbert Howard was a postal worker, a member of the NAACP, and a semi-professional photographer. Cape Fear Museum has a collection of more than 1,000 images he took documenting Wilmington’s black community.
•Artist Claude Howell left an extensive collection of scrapbooks to the Museum. The albums include hundreds of pages with photographs of Howell’s friends, local scenery, and people.
•Student nurse Elizabeth Ashworth attended the James Walker Memorial Hospital School of Nursing right after World War II. Her photographs provide a glimpse of a group of young white women’s lives in the late 1940s.
•In 2012, the Museum acquired a collection of photos that were taken in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and left at the Camera Shop, a downtown business that was a fixture from the late 1910s through the early 1980s.
Historian Jan Davidson explained why the concept behind the exhibit: “The different historical images speak to each other in some fascinating ways. Most of us can see our own lives reflected in the images, We all eat, hang out with friends, and many of us have taken silly pictures of ourselves or our loved ones. These images show our common humanity, and allow us to relate to people in the past as we might relate to a friend.”
Cape Fear Museum hopes the exhibit will spark reflection and conversation about the history of race relations. Davidson states, “When you look at these images as a group, they give us a chance to reflect on how legally-sanctioned racial segregation helped shape people’s daily lives. We want today’s visitors to have a chance to imagine what it felt like to live in a world where Jim Crow laws and attitudes deeply affected the textures of daily life.”
See more at: www.capefearmuseum.com/
Photo by Brett Cottrell, New Hanover County
Internal Nightmare celebrating the release of the New Ep 'Segregation'. Released through high voltage records.
Have a listen to these guys... They are great musicians and the ep is incredible.
Most people do not segregate their waste leaving Chintan waste recyclers with the dangerous job of sifting through the trash to ensure that recycling happens.
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Taken by Jacqui Kotyk, 2009 AP Fellow. Location: New Delhi, India. Partner: Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group.
The Belasco Theater at 17 Madison Place NW at Lafayette Square in a photo with a notation of December 20, 1929 on the back.
The Belasco was one of the few performing arts venues in Washington, D.C.’s era of segregation that permitted integrated audiences.
During the attempt to secure a venue for Marion Anderson following the DAR’s denial of Constitution Hall in 1939, the theater could not given a definitive answer as to its availability. This in turn led to securing the Lincoln Memorial for the landmark concert that served as a massive civil rights demonstration.
It was originally built as the Lafayette Square Opera House, opening September 30, 1895.
Before the opera house was built, the site was a private home noted for the violent acts that took place in early Washington. Civil War general Daniel Sickles killed the district attorney for the District of Columbia, Phillip Barton Key II, the son of Francis Scott Key on the site in 1859. At the same location, John Wilkes Booth co-conspirator Lewis Powell made an assassination attempt on Secretary of State William H. Seward in 1865.
The opera house was purchased by S. S. Shubert Amusement Company and David Belasco and reopened as the Belasco Theater. It was later converted to a movie house in 1930 and ultimately purchased by the federal government in 1940 where it was used periodically to entertain troops.
It was raised in 1964 and is now the site of the US. Court of Federal Claims.
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Image courtesy of the District of Columbia Public Library.
Flyer circa 1932 advertising a meeting of Park Hill residents pertaining to community and racial issues signed by Davis E. Warren of the East Park Hill Improvement Association.
See more information about the Denver Public Library's Western History and Genealogy Department's Digital Image Collection at: history.denverlibrary.org/images/index.html
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09/05/2017 - Dorchester, MA - After they've dropped off all their students, Boston Public Schools buses park in the school bus lot in Dorchester to await the next school day on May 9, 2017. (Ray Bernoff / The Tufts Daily)
A fjord is formed when a glacier cuts a U-shaped valley by ice segregation and abrasion of the surrounding bedrock. Glacial melting is accompanied by the rebounding of Earth's crust as the ice load and eroded sediment is removed (also called isostasy or glacial rebound). In some cases this rebound is faster than sea level rise. Most fjords are deeper than the adjacent sea; Sognefjord, Norway, reaches as much as 1,300 m (4,265 ft) below sea level. Fjords generally have a sill or shoal (bedrock) at their mouth caused by the previous glacier's reduced erosion rate and terminal moraine. In many cases this sill causes extreme currents and large saltwater rapids (see skookumchuck). Saltstraumen in Norway is often described as the world's strongest tidal current. These characteristics distinguish fjords from rias (e.g. the Bay of Kotor), which are drowned valleys flooded by the rising sea. Drammensfjorden is cut almost in two by the Svelvik "ridge", a sandy moraine that the during the ice cover was under sea level but after the post-glacial rebound reaches 60 meters above the fjord.