Category: black history month
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Lynched: “Say Their Names” -American Slaves & Their Descendants
Updated April 30, 2024 1864 Mississippi: Massacre at Ross’s Landing-Vicksburg National Military Park [National Parks Service] 1868 Georgia: Camilla Massacre [New Georgia Encyclopedia] 1873 Louisiana: Colfax Riot [Louisiana State University] 1875 Mississippi: The Clinton Massacre [Historical Marker Database] 1879 Arkansas: Daniels Family-Arkadelphia Lynching 1880 New York: Johson Chestnut Whittaker Slave and West Point Cadet was…
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Black Poets for National Poetry Month-Free Book Downloads
Updated April 30, 2024 1773: The Poems of Phillis Wheatley, as They Were Originally Published in London, 1773 [Google Books] 1798?-1884: George Moses Horton [All Poetry] 1816: A collection of hymns, compiled by J. Jea [Google Books] Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1855: Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects [Google Books] 1870: Moses: A Story of the Nile…
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A Frenchman’s Philosophy on why Blacks were inferior to every other human
The same reasoning led [Victor Courtet de l’Isle] to assert the superiority not only of the Asians but also of the American Indians over the Blacks; like writers of his century, he placed Blacks at the bottom of the human scale, their absolute inferiority being demonstrated by the fact that “they have enslaved no foreign…
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American Music Legends You Need to Know
Updated April 30, 2024 If you make a purchase on Amazon I will be compensated. Thank you for your support! Francis Johnson (1792-1844) Genre: Various [UPenn] [YouTube] [Amazon] Jimmy Rushing (1901-1972) Genre: Blues [Oaklahoma Historical Society][YouTube] [Amazon] Edward James “Son” House Jr. (1902-1988) Genre: Blues [Mississippi Encyclopedia] [YouTube] [Amazon] Sleepy John Estes (1904-1977) Genre: Blues…
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Systemic Racism in American History
Updated April 24, 2024 1741 Colonial New York: The New-York conspiracy, or, A history of the Negro plot [Library of Congress]Read Keeper of Knowledge’s Book Review on this event New York is Burning 1779 Colonial New York: The Philipsburg Proclamation-Whereas the Enemy have adopted a practice of enrolling Negroes among their Troops; I do hereby…
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