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rp @workingclasshistory: 23 July 1967, one of the biggest rebellions in US history occurred in Detroit, following a police raid on a bar in a poor, African-American majority area in the early hours of the morning. Black and white residents fought police in the streets and looted goods while snipers took potshots at officers from windows. Police, National Guard and US troops retaliated with outright brutality and intense violence. By the time it was over, more than 40 people were dead, 7,000 arrested and over 2,000 buildings destroyed.
After the violence subsided, a group of Black radicals decided that they had more potential power in their workplaces, and so soon set up the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.
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Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi 5☆ I read this one last month and it's one I am so proud to have read. I found it contained soooo much information that I did not know. Kendi argues here that racist ideas in America have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit⠀
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It is very dense, with a lot of information you have to go into this one willing and thirsty for knowledge and to learn and unlearn what you think you know and what you should know about America's racist past⠀
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I loved how Kendi divided it up with American thinkers such as Cotton Mather, William Lloyd Garrison WEB DuBois, and Angela Davis. He break it downs how some of these thinkers have challenged or cemented racist ideas in America⠀
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Truly a life changing, eye opening 500+ page book that truly delivers. I loved how he shed light on the history of racist ideas that you will not get in school, and offer tools at the same time to expose them and move progress to an anti-racist society. Have you read this one yet? Is it on your list? Repost @absorbedinpages.
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rp @iamrachelricketts: The world is very much on fire, in many ways. Though I am hundreds of miles + a border away from the fires in California, Oregon and Washington, my city is filled with their smoke + currently has the worst air quality level of any major city in the world. I can barely go outside. Black men+ are STILL being brutally murdered by police, and any semblance of democracy in the US is eroded on the daily.
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If you have interest in teaching your children about black history and antiracism from an African American perspective, and if you have the ability, consider donating/contributing to my work tangibly by joining The Classroom. Click the first link in my bio to signup.
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RP @blackhistory. Reverend George Washington Lee, co-founder of the Belzoni, Mississippi NAACP and the first African-American to register to vote in Humphreys County since Reconstruction, was shot and killed in Belzoni on May 7, 1955.
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He is considered one of the early martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Belzoni was also home to a White Citizen's Council, a group of white residents actively working to suppress civil rights activism and maintain white supremacy through threats, economic intimidation, and violence.
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The Council learned of Rev. Lee's voter registration efforts and targeted him with threats and intimidation, but he was undeterred.
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While Rev. Lee was driving home on the night of May 7, gunshots were fired into the cab of his car, ripping off the lower half of his face. He later died at Humphreys County Medical Center.
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When NAACP field secretary for Mississippi Medgar Evers came to investigate the death, the county sheriff boldly denied that any homicide had taken place; instead, he claimed that Rev. Lee had died in a car accident and that the lead bullets found in his jaw were dental fillings.
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Investigation revealed evidence against two members of the local White Citizen's Council, but when the local prosecutor resisted moving forward, the case stalled.
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The NAACP memorial service held in Rev. Lee's honor was attended by more than 1,000 mourners.
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Comment "More black history in schools now" if you read this story to the end.
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rp @blairimani: COLORISM: WHAT IS IT? WHY DOES IT MATTER? Colorism is bias against darker skin color and in favor of lighter skin color within and between groups and cultures. It is a form of white supremacy that benefits people who are perceived as close or in proximity to whiteness. As a light skinned Black woman, I benefit from colorism. Just as white people benefit from white supremacy. Benefiting from a system of oppression does not require you to agree with it and by doing nothing about it, you’re complicit. People with privilege in a given system must take it upon themselves to learn about how forms of oppression lift them up at other people’s expense. You’ve likely seen colorism in action. In representation, lighter skinned actors are often hired to play darker skinned figures in history or even fiction. In opportunity, lighter skinned people are less likely to be tone policed in the same way as their darker skinned peers. Colorism also impacts life and death. There’s a reason that the majority of the people who have been victims of police violence have been darker skinned Black folks. Because white supremacy, racism, and colorism all socialize us to believe that lighter = safer and leaves darker skinned people to fight a wall of bias and too often it is in a life and death context. From a US historical standpoint: Lighter skinned Black people often “passed for white” escaping the conditions of racism that their family & community members could not navigate out of at all. So, when I hear some lighter skinned people complain about how hard they’ve had it, it can remind me of a poor white person saying that they didn’t experience white privilege because they grew up poor. While yes. Those experiences of bullying and poverty are still valid and deserve acknowledgment, it’s different than having an entire system constructed against you because of your skin color. As we engage in antiracism we have to look at ALL of the ways that white supremacy manifests. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
rp @novareidofficial: This is Dion Diamond. He started doing these “sit ins” from just 15 years old because he got sick of “whites only” cafes and being relegated as a second class citizen because of the colour of his skin. It wasn’t without consequence though, he was put in jail many times & guards told white inmates if they gave him a hard time, they’d get time off their sentence. Imagine that . Swipe right, he’s 78 now. Some find it hard to imagine this level of segregation was in our lifetime and seem to think it was a long time ago.
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RP @blackgirlthatreads. Y’all know I’m a huge fan of Dr. Daina Ramey Berry!
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Since meeting her in Houston about two years ago, I’ve been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this book. She’s one of the few historians that no matter what they put out, I’m going to make sure I support it. So here we are!
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A Black Woman’s History of the United States, co-authored with Dr. Kali Nicole Gross, offers an examination and celebration of Black womanhood, beginning with the first African woman who arrived in what became the United States.
Their goal in writing this was not to offer a comprehensive history of Black women in the United States, but instead they wanted to offer a vivid introduction that celebrates our diversity and inspires readers to seek out more on their own.
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I’ve made it my goal to slowly read this over the course of the month so stayed tuned for bits and pieces that stand out to me!
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rp @teachfortheculture: Quick fixes and patches are not it. - Just picture the visual of someone using a straw to blow bubbles into a well and then saying that well is now a jacuzzi. —- It is similar to a teacher adding a new book to their classroom library, or a new lesson to the curriculum and saying the classroom is now “anti-racist”. 👀 - Is that well now a jacuzzi because you blew some bubbles into it? naw. - Is your classroom now “anti-racist” because you added a new lesson? naw. —- Lets keep building. - Ya can’t just blow bubbles in the old and then call it a different thing .. It’s STILL a well!!
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