Tag: Black
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Eleanor Roosevelt: “We will all go ahead together, or we will all go down together”
On Friday morning, 11 May 1934, Eleanor Roosevelt attended the National Conference on Fundamental Problems in the Education of Negroes in Washington D.C. This was an event sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education, the precursor of the Department of Education. Eleanor gave a very forceful speech on the issue of Black America, but after…
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COINTELPRO: The FBI vs. the Black Liberation Movement
Hi, Sharing some FBI documents from the COINTELPRO operations during the 1960’s. This is a fascinating read 🙂 This is the memo from Hoover initiating the COINTELPRO against the Black Liberation Movement August 25, 1967, FBI Director (Hoover) to all offices. Counterintelligence ProgramBlack Nationalist – Hate GroupsInternal Security The purpose of this new counterintelligence endeavor…
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James Baldwin on the White Man’s Necessity for a Nigger
Hi, I’m a bit embarrassed that I have not dedicated a space on this blog to talk about one of my favorite intellectuals: James Baldwin. In 1965, Baldwin visited Cambridge University for a historic debate against the leading Conservative “intellectual”, William F. Buckley. The debate took place at the debating hall of Cambridge Union surrounded…
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A Timeline of Violence During the Civil Rights Movement
Let’s talk violence. America, and to be fair the world in general, has a very violent history. Civil rights, woman’s rights, gay rights, labor rights, political rights, etc. have all face extreme and ugly forms of violence. I wanted to make a timeline of some of the most appalling and violent acts that Americans inflicted…
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Moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal
At the height of the Detroit rebellion, on July 28, 1967, President Johnson appointed a National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to answer three basic questions about the riots: What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again? Mounting civil unrest since 1965 had spawned riots…
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Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics
by Rakesh Kochhar, July 26, 2012, Pew Research Center The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly available government data from 2009. These lopsided wealth ratios are the largest since the government began publishing such…