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NAACP Head Walter White was a Pioneering Black Journalist - Word In Black, A groundbreaking collaboration of the nation's leading Black news publishers.


By Khloe Quill
The Howard Center For Investigative Journalism

Breathlessly, the man scrambled along the railroad tracks, barely catching the next northbound train out of town. He bought his ticket onboard and tried to swallow a sense of foreboding.

Chaos was brewing behind in Phillips County, in the Delta region of Arkansas. Charles H. Brough, then governor of Arkansas, had raced from Little Rock to Elaine to hunt Black people during the Elaine Massacre of 1919, when as many as 800 Black people were killed by white mobs, according to historians.

A white mob heard there was a Black man posing as a white reporter and set out to catch him. Walter F. White, a Black man who looked white, later wrote in his autobiography, “A Man Called White,” that the train conductor told him the train would be delayed and that he was “about to miss some fun.” The conductor explained there was a Black man passing for white.

“What’ll they do with him?” White asked.

“When they get through with him he won’t pass for white no more.”
“White interviewed a few … white residents who confirmed that undercutting black sharecroppers was typical. ‘If n—–s had gotten all they earned’ White later reported, ‘they would own the Delta by now.’

“He also reported a number of whites had told him that over one hundred blacks were killed despite the reported 25 and that the real fatality count would never be known,” wrote Adrienne Jones, an archivist for the Center for Arkansas History and Culture at the University of Arkansas Little Rock.
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Was Beyond Excited When I Saw This.It’s In San Diego, On University Ave, Or St.

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carmenjonze wrote: Mon Feb 07, 2022 12:54 pm Cher
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Was Beyond Excited When I Saw This.It’s In San Diego, On University Ave, Or St.

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I follow her, I didnt see this, thanks. What is it, street named after Chaz? I follow Chaz also, but a little confused.
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Libertas wrote: Mon Feb 07, 2022 12:56 pm I follow her, I didnt see this, thanks. What is it, street named after Chaz?
I can't tell - I don't think so, I think it's a GLAAD campaign that Chaz is a part of being celebrated in San Diego? That's what it looks like to me.
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carmenjonze wrote: Mon Feb 07, 2022 12:57 pm I can't tell - I don't think so, I think it's a GLAAD campaign that Chaz is a part of being celebrated in San Diego? That's what it looks like to me.
Trying to read the flag thing, maybe it is a show Chaz is doing with Glaad, not sure. Nice to see Cher's twitter again though, she is amazing. In many ways she is amazing!

Yeah no, not a street named after Chaz :lol: dont know how that came into my head!



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Libertas wrote: Mon Feb 07, 2022 1:00 pm Trying to read the flag thing, maybe it is a show Chaz is doing with Glaad, not sure. Nice to see Cher's twitter again though, she is amazing. In many ways she is amazing!

Yeah no, not a street named after Chaz :lol: dont know how that came into my head!



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Yes both Cher and Chaz are incredible. Cher has always been pretty open about her own journey as a name-recognition parent of first a gay person then a trans person. And Chaz has been...well, IDK how he has done it all these years. It is not easy to come out twice in the public eye. Heck, it's not easy to come out even once in the private eye :P
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Gary Chambers is making a stark statement on inequality in the U.S. with another provocative political ad — watch as he sets a Confederate flag on fire

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carmenjonze wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 6:07 am NowThis
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Gary Chambers is making a stark statement on inequality in the U.S. with another provocative political ad — watch as he sets a Confederate flag on fire

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls

I wish Hollywood would make a movie about this man's life. One of the most interesting people to ever live
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Glennfs wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 4:04 pm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls

I wish Hollywood would make a movie about this man's life. One of the most interesting people to ever live
Robert Smalls is not a random, atomized individual. He has an important context that should not be glossed over.

I say this knowing how desperate conservatives are to gloss it over. It's why you guys are implementing anti-CRT laws in state after state.

The context is Reconstruction, the Radical Republicans you guys wish to sweep under the rug in favor of touting predators of children like Strom Thurmond, and the viciousness of anti-Reconstructionism in South Carolina.

From your link:
Smalls was a delegate at the 1868 South Carolina Constitutional Convention where he was a part of the effort to make free, compulsory schooling available to all South Carolina children.[20] He also served as a delegate at several Republican National Conventions; he also participated in the South Carolina Republican State conventions.

In 1868, Smalls was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives. He was very effective, and introduced the Homestead Act and introduced and worked to pass the Civil Rights bill. In 1870, Jonathan Jasper Wright was elected judge of the South Carolina Supreme Court and Smalls was elected to fill his unexpired time in the Senate. He continued in the Senate, winning the 1872 election against W. J. Whipper. In the senate he was considered a very good speaker and debater. He was on the Finance Committee and chairman of the Public Printing Committee.[32][20]
Conservative whites in your state formed the KKK the same year DIRECTLY because of the successes of guys like Smalls.

"The K. K. Alphabet": Secret Communication and Coordination of the Reconstruction-Era Ku Klux Klan in the Carolinas - Civil War Era Journal/JSTOR
Abstract

This article explores the story behind a ciphered letter sent from two brothers, Johnston Jones in North Carolina to Iredell Jones in South Carolina, both members of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction. The letter and a few accompanying documents generated by fellow members of the Klan suggest that the Klan was not exclusively an organic and isolated movement. Rather, conservative white southern elites, connected by ties of Confederate service and family, engaged in a clandestine campaign of organizing against the interracial politics of Reconstruction. Recalibrating our conception of the extent to which the Ku Klux Klan was coordinated provides a more accurate understanding of the ways white supremacist vigilante violence was used to shut down interracial political opportunities after emancipation.
No Black person, including Rep. Smalls, would have suffered or endured so much if not for the vicious political behavior of conservative whites, who worked to keep Black people either nominally enslaved, legally subservient, or preferably both.
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Justice Dept. still probing civil rights era police killings - AP News
The Justice Department’s decision to close its investigation of Emmett Till’s slaying all but ended the possibility of new charges in the teen’s death 66 years ago, yet agents are still probing as many as 20 other civil rights cold cases, including the police killings of 13 Black men in three Southern states decades ago.

The department is reviewing the killings of six men shot by police during a racial rebellion in Augusta, Georgia, in 1970, according to the agency’s latest report to Congress. The city best known for hosting golf’s Masters Tournament had been engulfed by riots after a Black teenager was beaten to death in the county jail.

The agency also is investigating the killings of seven other Black men involved in student protests in South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana during the societal upheaval of the late 1960s and early ’70s. And investigators are looking at cases in which seven more individuals were killed, including a girl in Pennsylvania, the report showed.
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“They Have Erected a Neat Little Church:" A Special History Study of the Rural African American Experience, 1865–1900, in the National Capital Area - National Park Service
This study focuses on the experiences of rural African Americans in the counties surrounding the District of Columbia—parts of Maryland, northern Virginia, and eastern West Virginia within the boundaries of the NPS NCA—during the tumultuous decades following the Civil War through the year 1900. The study begins with region-wide historical survey and then presents four detailed case studies to represent communities in or adjoining three national parks: Manassas National Battlefield, Antietam National Battlefield, and Prince William Forest Park.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Nine

The Judge who set aside the convictions in 2015 was a nephew of the judge who sentenced them to 90 days in 1961. Now that is progress.
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Glennfs wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 7:45 am https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Nine

The Judge who set aside the convictions in 2015 was a nephew of the judge who sentenced them to 90 days in 1961. Now that is progress.
Not really. This situation should never have existed in the first place.

The only reason anyone had to even do sit down protests at all is because conservative whites are so petty in your delusions of superiority, whites-rule was implemented even at lunch counters at national retail chains like Woolworth’s. The judge is not owed one single thing for overturning convictions for sitting outside of some arbitrary designated area. It’s not the flex of white benevolence you think it is.

From your link:
The men were represented at the hearing by Ernest A. Finney, Jr., the same lawyer who had defended them originally, who subsequently went on to become the first African-American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court since Reconstruction.[16]
Every time you read the words “first black…” or first anything, it’s because conservative whites made it impossible for anyone but yourselves to thrive…and got the government, the courts, even petty lunch counters in college towns, to help you do so.
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The documentary ‘Fannie Lou Hamer’s America’ took more than 10 years to make. The activist’s words continue to inspire. - Chicago Tribune
How much do you really know about civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer?

In these pandemic years, her story has been told on the Goodman Theatre stage and in Chicago parks by way of Chicago-born playwright Cheryl L. West and historian Keisha Blain, a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, who authored the book “Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America.”

Both writers share the story of Hamer, who died in 1977 and didn’t come to activism until her 40s, centering her voice on voting and women’s rights. The Mississippi sharecropper endured assaults, co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (or Freedom Democratic Party), and went to the 1964 Democratic National Convention to demand Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegates be seated in the convention, rather than the all-white Mississippi Democratic Party delegates. The move drew national attention to the plight of Blacks in the South. (Filmmaker Christine Swanson, Oscar-nominated actress Aunjanue Ellis, and DePaul University students filmed the short film “Fannie” at Cinespace Studios in October 2021. Ellis plays Hamer giving her testimony in front of the Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee Aug. 22, 1964.)

And on Feb. 22 and 24, respectively, another Hamer project will premiere on PBS and then WORLD Channel as part of “America Reframed’s”10th season. Directed and edited by Edgewater resident Joy Davenport, “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” is a documentary originated by Hamer’s grandniece Monica Land (a native Chicagoan) that tells Hamer’s story in her own words, with some never-before-seen photos and rare footage that family and film researchers uncovered.
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People are making connections between the latest SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson and civil rights luminary Constance Baker Motley. Just as a personal aside, Constance Baker Motley has been a style icon of mine since I was a kid, and she still is now, both her and RBG. Great clothes!
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Robert Smalls: The Enslaved Black Man Who Became a Civil War Hero -- @BBC_Reel

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Robert Smalls: The Enslaved Black Man Who Became a Civil War Hero - New Black Man in Exile/Mark Anthony Neal
'Charleston Harbour, South Carolina, 1862. A man named Robert Smalls is staging a daring escape from slavery. Smalls had been forced to work as pilot on a prized confederate navy ship called the CSS Plater. That night, all of the white officers on the ship had decided to spend the night on shore with their families. This created an enticing and dangerous opportunity for escape. This daring plan not only turned Robert Smalls into a Civil War hero, but also set him on a path to becoming one of America's first African American politicians, whose influence can still be felt today.'

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This is great news - "Howard University to digitize Black Press Archives, which includes 2,847 microfilm reels of newspapers, totaling over 100,000 individual issues of publications from Black newspapers in America, Africa and other nations."
https://nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/howard- ... -rcna17185 via @nbcnews

[LINK: Howard University to digitize its archive of thousands of Black newspapers]

https://twitter.com/mattdelmont/status/ ... 5173633058
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carmenjonze wrote: Sat Feb 26, 2022 12:14 pm Matt Delmont
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This is great news - "Howard University to digitize Black Press Archives, which includes 2,847 microfilm reels of newspapers, totaling over 100,000 individual issues of publications from Black newspapers in America, Africa and other nations."
https://nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/howard- ... -rcna17185 via @nbcnews

[LINK: Howard University to digitize its archive of thousands of Black newspapers]

https://twitter.com/mattdelmont/status/ ... 5173633058
Totally Freaking Awsome. This history is vital.
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I've been happy to have been able to attend a human rights conference at Howard when I was in DC. It was excellent. I'm also happy to have met and am working with a self-proclaimed "Howard Girl" - a graduate from Howard who's very active along with me in local politics.
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One of the problems with Civil Rights Progress is any time we move forward, the GOP fights like hell to smear and derail that movement. Instead of them saying "you know, it's about time there WAS a black woman on the court," they scream discrimination and "quota hire" to demean and debase the nominee.

Glennfs decries the work that Democratic Presidents have made in putting women and people of color onto the Supreme Court, complaining to me that the Dems haven't nominated a white man for the Court for decades. Of course, he forgot Obama nominating Merrick Garland. Obama knew that, with the GOP controlling the Senate, that he had to find someone they couldn't argue with. So, the reality is he had to nominate a white man, someone that several GOP Senators had championed. "Oh, we'd vote for Merrick Garland, but he'll never nominate him," they said. Of course, when he did so, McConnell blatantly blocked him and refused to have a vote, knowing that enough GOP Senators would vote for him to pass.

But it just shows the blatant racism of the right that they will fight anyone who isn't a conservative white male.

And they will fight ANY progress in civil rights.
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gounion wrote: Sat Feb 26, 2022 1:45 pm One of the problems with Civil Rights Progress is any time we move forward, the GOP fights like hell to smear and derail that movement. Instead of them saying "you know, it's about time there WAS a black woman on the court," they scream discrimination and "quota hire" to demean and debase the nominee.

Glennfs decries the work that Democratic Presidents have made in putting women and people of color onto the Supreme Court, complaining to me that the Dems haven't nominated a white man for the Court for decades. Of course, he forgot Obama nominating Merrick Garland. Obama knew that, with the GOP controlling the Senate, that he had to find someone they couldn't argue with. So, the reality is he had to nominate a white man, someone that several GOP Senators had championed. "Oh, we'd vote for Merrick Garland, but he'll never nominate him," they said. Of course, when he did so, McConnell blatantly blocked him and refused to have a vote, knowing that enough GOP Senators would vote for him to pass.

But it just shows the blatant racism of the right that they will fight anyone who isn't a conservative white male.

And they will fight ANY progress in civil rights.
Yes well, f. them.

How many centuries have they been reliant on white backlash to get what they want.

They're just mad because we're not afraid of them. Every story in this thread reflects that, the entire movement is about that.
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