Civil Rights Progress

[gounion]

I should save this for tomorrow as I am about to walk out the door. But, as a Conservative Republican White Male in SC what voting rights do I have that a Liberal Democratic African American in SC doesn't have

Oh, you ONLY want to discuss voting rights?

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troll

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Oh, you ONLY want to discuss voting rights?

His troll question didn’t even address the post.

[Motor City]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w7V1h4soUk

'My humanity is caught up in yours' : How Desmond Tutu dedicated his life to greater good

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w7V1h4soUk

Good segment on him. I learned some things. Thank you!

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Sherrilyn Ifill
@Sifill_LDF

I’m not rushing to Jan. 6th without first acknowledging the significance of Jan. 5th. The determination, organizing & resilience of Black voters in Georgia resulted in the election of the first Black Senator since Reconstruction & the first Jewish statewide elected official ever.



https://twitter.com/Sifill_LDF/status/1 ... 0912142341

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HistoricalSocietyPA
@historicalpa

Henry Brown, an enslaved person in Virginia, planned his escape by addressing a large wooden box to Phila. and sealing himself inside. He was received by the PA Abolition Society and was freed. He afterward wrote a memoir of his escape and toured the country. #henryboxbrown



https://twitter.com/historicalpa/status ... 1633562637

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@JarohnJ

MJ Rodriguez discussing her Golden Globes win.

[VIDEO]

https://twitter.com/JarohnJ/status/1480384120559656965
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For Pose! First transgender performer to win Best Actress in a Drama Series!

If you have not seen Pose, see Pose it is so good!

https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/pose

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Biden to back filibuster changes to push voting rights bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will use a speech in Georgia to endorse changing Senate filibuster rules that have stalled voting rights legislation, saying it’s time to choose “democracy over autocracy.” But some civil rights groups won’t be there, in protest of what they say is administration inaction.

Biden on Tuesday will pay tribute to civil rights battles past — visiting Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once held forth from the pulpit, and placing a wreath at the crypt of King and his wife, Coretta Scott King — before turning to today’s challenge.

https://apnews.com/article/voting-right ... afe512554d

[Libertas]

Board cons support THIRTY FOUR NEW LAWS since Jan 6 in 17 states that makes voting harder!

GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY

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City of Albuquerque seeking stories, historical artifacts from descendants of Albuquerque Indian School - Indian Country Today

The City of Albuquerque will hold four community conversations with people who have a connection with the old Albuquerque Indian School, as part of an effort to gather a more complete history to inform the future of the burial site at 4-H Park. The City of Albuquerque invites the public to share stories about family members, neighbors, teachers, staff and loved ones who were part of the Albuquerque Indian School.

Since June 2021, the City of Albuquerque has been seeking input and guidance from pueblos, tribes, and community stakeholders on how to treat the burial site as a sacred space within a city park, following the disappearance of a plaque that marked the spot where students are thought to be buried.

“As we move through the process of discovering stories about the Indian School and what took place there, we must take the time to ask our ancestors for strength and healing for those who didn’t return home,” said Terry Sloan, Intergovernmental Tribal Liaison for the City of Albuquerque. “The most sensitive areas of the park have been demarcated and closed to public access and we ask the community to be respectful of that space as it is a sacred site.”

[Libertas]

City of Albuquerque seeking stories, historical artifacts from descendants of Albuquerque Indian School - Indian Country Today

IDK why but I thought of

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066832/


Billy Jack...dont know how it relates to actual history. I realize Billy Jack is not real or historical, but it is what popped in my head.

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The Lost Graves of Louisiana’s Enslaved People - NYT, video

Historical maps. The descendants of enslaved people. And multibillion dollar petrochemical companies. These elements converge in a story about the hidden burial grounds of Louisiana’s enslaved people, and how continued industrial development is putting the historic sites at risk.

In this video, we reveal what is hiding in plain sight: the possible burial grounds of enslaved people who were forced to work these plantations 200 years ago. Their locations have remained a mystery, until now.

Using a new study from the research group Forensic Architecture, we looked at historical maps and aerial photos, drone footage, satellite imagery and went to Louisiana to find these concealed graves. Their research uses a technique called cartographic regression, which is used by archeologists to travel back in time to see how the land has changed.

The research shows how even a single tree can be a crucial marker.

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It only took until 2022.

Illinois Homeowners Can Now Remove Racist Clauses From Their Property Deeds - NYT

With a new law, Illinois joins over a dozen states that have made it easier to remove racial restrictive covenants, which were used to bar people of certain races from buying homes.

A new law in Illinois allows homeowners to change their housing deeds to remove racist clauses that were used to bar people of certain races and religious groups from buying homes or living in a particular neighborhood.

The clauses, which are known as racial restrictive covenants, were outlawed under the Fair Housing Act in 1968, but they remain buried in an unknown number of property documents across the United States — relics of a broader effort by the real estate industry, federal housing authorities and individual homeowners to prevent integration.

In many states, it can be arduous, if not impossible, to remove the covenants from property records, prompting states such as Illinois to pass laws that streamline the process. As of Jan. 1, homeowners in the state can submit a request to their county recorder to remove the covenants. The cost per request is capped at $10.

Since 2018, at least 13 states have passed laws to make it easier to remove racial covenants from deeds. A bill to do so in New York is pending in the Legislature.

One of the first people to request the modification in Illinois was Nicole Sullivan, who has been trying to change her deed since around 2011, when she bought a house in Lake County, in the northeastern corner of the state.

Ms. Sullivan’s homeowner’s association had sent her a copy of the deed, dated March 1929, to explain why she could not create a fenced-off area for her dog on the property.

She was intrigued by the document, then alarmed when she found a clause stipulating that the house could never be sold to or occupied by “any person or persons of the African or Negro, Japanese, Chinese, Jewish or Hebrew races, or their descendants.”

[carmenjonze]

Nobody hates Carter he was just a lousy president who did a very poor job.

Now he might be the best man ever to hold the office.

As a former president he is imo the greatest of all time. I can't think of a better ambassador for the United States then he has been.

Again I don't see much hatred for president Carter

No wonder so many conservative whites still hate Carter 40+ years after being propagandized by White Citizens Council nooz. :problem:

South Africa Says Carter Voices Anti-White Racism - The Citizen, Ole Miss Libraries, 1976, pdf

The aim of the Carter Administration was to force majority rule on South Africa, the Minister of Information and of Plural Relations and Development Dr. Connie Mulder told the French-South African Association in Paris recently. He said South Africa detected "anti-White racism" in the statements of the Carter Administration.

[Motor City]

https://twitter.com/StevieWonder/status ... 9194178560

Why *won't* you, Senators?

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New British dictionary to detail thousands who profited through slave trade - Scotsman

Academics are working on the largest ever database of investors in the slave trade as part of a project designed to highlight links to modern-day firms and wealthy individuals.

The Dictionary of British Slave Traders, an initiative backed by £1 million in funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, aims to collate detailed biographies of investors from the 16th century through to the 19th century.

The endeavour will also document those who held shares in companies involved in the slave trade, as well as those individuals who invested through syndicates in independent slave trading voyages.

Those behind the project say it will illustrate the “entanglement” of wealth amassed through the slave trade across the economy and how financial legacy can still be felt in the present day.

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This is a phenomenal new resource from ProQuest.

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Challenges and Triumphs in the Pursuit of Equality

In recent years, the tragic killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown have contributed to an overdue collective outrage against the long history of discrimination and violence against African Americans in the U.S., sparking widespread demonstrations against police brutality and systemic racism.

This website contains over 3,000 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom:

1. Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860)
2. The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877)
3. Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932)
4. The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945)
5. The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975)
6. The Contemporary Era (1976-2000)

https://blackfreedom.proquest.com/

[Libertas]

delete

moved

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https://twitter.com/ejmontini/status/14 ... I8TxxK-AQA


https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion ... 299302002/




This is the America board cons will die to protect. White supremacy is their entire identification.

Not civil rights progress.

[Libertas]

Not civil rights progress.

I didnt know where to put it, I will move it. I dont know why I picked the LEAST compatible thread though

viewtopic.php?p=14605#p14605

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Oh no need, just making an observation.

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Groundbreaking Movie Star Anna May Wong Emblazoned On US Quarter - LAist

Anna May Wong is known as Hollywood's first Asian American movie star, but she was overlooked, underpaid and stereotyped throughout her career. Now she's getting some overdue recognition as one of five iconic American women being featured on the U.S. quarter.

Wong, who was born in 1905 in Los Angeles, was a third generation Chinese American. She grew up working at her father’s laundromat in the original Chinatown, and she loved to visit film sets. At just nine years old, Wong chose to become a movie star.

Sociologist Nancy Wang Yuen says Wong was aware that her roles would play into stereotypes.

“She actually even critiqued them publicly, which is pretty astounding, in that I don't even know if actors today feel comfortable publicly critiquing roles that they've played in,” Yuen said.

Fed up with playing such tropes, in the late 1920s Wong traveled to Europe where she starred in several films and had a cabaret act. In 1935, she auditioned for the lead in the film adaptation of “The Good Earth,” a book that centered the Chinese experience. German actress Luise Rainer was cast instead.

“This was a huge, epic blockbuster film that everybody knew was going to have lots of awards,” Yuen said. “This, for Anna May Wong, was like the role of a lifetime because there were no Chinese roles for her.”

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Getty Images Releases Collection of Photos From Archives of HBCUs - Ebony

For more than a century, photographs have been used to record our history—our lives, our pain, our triumphs. And in Black America, as complicated as that past has been, the documentation of these events has given credit to our existence and contributions in this country. If a single picture is worth a thousand words, a collection is worth an infinite number of untold stories, unmentioned memories, and lingering accounts that add to the history of Black people at any given time and place.

This week, visual media company Getty Images unlocked the door to many of these treasured moments in history by releasing a slew of new photos from the archives of HBCUs. The “Historically Black Colleges & Universities Collection” already contains a myriad of archival photos from Claflin University, Jackson State University, North Carolina Central University and Prairie View A&M University and there are plans for this digitization project to include up to 200,000 by the end of 2022.

“As we make some important steps toward changing the level of diversity and representation of all communities and content creators represented in our collections, this is a pivotal moment for Getty Images,” Cassandra Illidge, VP of Partnerships for Getty Images tells EBONY. “We acknowledge that the photography industry has historically not worked from an accepting and unbiased gaze. Archival content, in particular, has not been representative of the unique and impactful contributions of the Black community.”

The four aforementioned HBCUs were selected by Getty to receive a photo archive grant. In partnership with the Getty Family and Stand Together, a philanthropic community tackling some of the biggest challenges of our times, $500,000 was given to support the digitization of these schools’ archival photos.

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Legal Defense Fund
@NAACP_LDF

Thurgood Marshall, founder of LDF, was confirmed as the first Black person to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967. Marshall was an influential leader of the civil rights movement whose tremendous legacy lives on in the pursuit of racial justice.
https://naacpldf.org/about-us/history/t ... -marshall/



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