The Civil War is over. And the question remains, what to do with 200,000 largely illiterate, profoundly ignorant to the ways of the world, landless, moneyless, and homeless population? Hello? Anybody? Don’t all raise your hands all at once? After …
Exodus 20:5
“I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.” Exodus 20:5 On December 1, 1955, the seminal event of …
The Great Migration “We Gettin’ Da @#$% Outta Here”
In 1889, Jim Crow began in the South, kicking off a campaign of unconstrained textbook terrorism that would last until 1965. 85% of all lynching’s that occurred in the United States occurred south of the Mason Dixon line. In 1892 …
W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington
An elderly black man took off his hat, bowed, and, with tears running down his cheeks, said, “May de good Lord bless you, President Linkum!” Lincoln replied by removing his own hat and silently returning the bow. That gesture, a …
And That’s A Fact Jack
Jim Jefferies is regarded as one of the greatest prizefighters of all time and rightfully so. Born in 1875, just 10 years after the American Civil War, he was known as the Boilermaker.Jefferies stood about 6’1 and weighed about 225 …
May 30, 1921
For most of you, what you are about to read will be entirely new to you. And for many of you, you will think it to be so unbelievable that you will question if it is true.But it is true.Had …
Enter Marcus Garvey
In 1900, a whopping 90% of Black Americans still lived in the south. By 1930, one out of every three black Americans had migrated from the South into northern industrial cities like Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and New York City. To …
The Nation of Islam
Eugenics had gotten very popular here in America by the turn of the century, as there were many people looking to Eugenics to advance their social agendas. Eugenics was being used in the United States to support a variety of …
“Why does America tolerate the lynching of Negroes?”
When Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas travelled to India in 1950 the very first question he was asked by the Indian press was, “Why does America tolerate the lynching of Negroes?” 1950 was the height of the Cold War. …
The Doll Test
By 1954, there were a growing number of Americans who had come to realize that America’s unwillingness to deal with its institutionalized “inequities” regarding race were damaging its “brand” throughout the world. But actually doing something about it, well that …
Fool me once…
When the grandchildren of enslaved Africans returned home from Europe after fighting World War I, they returned with the hope that after serving honorably, their own country would appreciate their bravery and sacrifice and see to it that their own …
Obedient Defiance
“Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.” – Malcolm X The second season of lynchings that started after World War II ushered in a second wave of Blacks leaving the south. This time they weren’t just coming north. They …