Category: black history month
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Black History Museums
* Museums I have visited. -EditorUpdated May 6, 2024 Indiana *Indianapolis, Marion County: Indiana State Museum [Slavery/Civil War/Civil Rights] *Indianapolis, Marion County: Madam C.J. Walker Legacy Center Massachusetts North Attenborough, Bristol County: National Black Doll Museum of History & Culture Missouri *St. Louis, St. Louis County: Gateway Arch/Old Courthouse-Dred Scott Decision [Slavery/Civil War] New Jersey…
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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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Systemic Racism in American History
Updated May 6, 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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The People Behind American Racism
Updated May 8, 2024 1811-1884 Judah Philip Benjamin “The Brains of the Confederacy” [American Battlefield Trust] | [Jewish Virtual Library] 1817?-1910? Lewis Robards-Slave Trader [Rice University] | [Wikipedia] 1837-1865 William Quantrill Confederate Guerilla Leader [National Parks Service] 1869-1951 James Thomas Heflin “Cottom Tom” [US Senate] [Encyclopedia of Alabama] 1897-1973 Eugene “Bull” Connor [Encyclopedia of Alabama]…
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