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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:18:25 -0500

Malcolm Burnley, Brown University Student, Uncovers Lost Malcolm X Speech

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:49:04 -0500

Malcolm Burnley, Brown University Student, Uncovers Lost Malcolm X Speech:

‘Lost’ Malcolm X speech from 1961 reveals an interesting side of the leader.

“The legacy of slavery and racism, he told the crowd of 800, “has made the 20 million black people in this country a dead people. Dead economically, dead mentally, dead spiritually. Dead morally and otherwise. Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.”“

“BYU Students Asked About Black History By Comedian In...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:42:25 -0500

“BYU Students Asked About Black History By Comedian In Blackface” - HuffPost

This is equal parts terrible and disturbing.

ilovecharts: Vintage Charts: The Students of W.E.B. Du Bois,...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:03:15 -0500

ilovecharts:

Vintage Charts: The Students of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1902

Over a century old, these charts still hold up stylistically.

James Earl Jones Talks Growing Up With A Racist Grandmother

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:12:41 -0500

James Earl Jones Talks Growing Up With A Racist Grandmother:

The voice of Darth Vader openly talks about his grandmother’s “defensive racism.”

FBI Says The End Is Near For Investigations Into Civil Rights-era Cold Cases

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:21:18 -0500

FBI Says The End Is Near For Investigations Into Civil Rights-era Cold Cases

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Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:52:53 -0400

afrosoul: A. Philip Randolph, founding president of the...

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:51:34 -0400

afrosoul:

A. Philip Randolph, founding president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, left, and his colleague, Bayard Rustin, testify before the Senate Government Operations Subcommittee on Dec. 5, 1966

legrandcirque: A lone African-American student waits for class...

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:51:06 -0400

legrandcirque:

A lone African-American student waits for class to start at a newly integrated high school. Photograph by Robert W. Kelley. Clinton, Tennessee, 1956.

"No people in the world profess so high a respect for liberty and equality as the people of the..."

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:44:39 -0400

“No people in the world profess so high a respect for liberty and equality as the people of the United States, and yet no people hold so many slaves, or make such great distinctions between man and man.”

- Rev. Peter Williams Jr. from “Slavery and Colonization” 1830 (via afrosoul)

Dead Presidents: Excerpt: "I Wasn't Saved To Run"

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:19:26 -0400

Dead Presidents: Excerpt: "I Wasn't Saved To Run" :

deadpresidents:

Here’s an excerpt from my tribute to the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, “I Wasn’t Saved To Run” which will be published in AND Magazine in the next few hours:

Why does Rev. Shuttlesworth’s name not ring as loudly as the names of Martin Luther King, Jr. or Rosa Parks? Why was Fred…

"The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedmen has not yet found in freedom his..."

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:40:20 -0400

“The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedmen has not yet found in freedom his promised land.”

- The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois (via mfreund77)

"When Julian Bond, the former Georgia lawmaker and civil rights activist, turned to teaching two..."

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:37:52 -0400

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When Julian Bond, the former Georgia lawmaker and civil rights activist, turned to teaching two decades ago, he often quizzed his college students to gauge their awareness of the civil rights movement. He did not want to underestimate their grasp of the topic or talk down to them, he said.

“My fears were misplaced,” Mr. Bond said. No student had heard of George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama, he said. One student guessed that Mr. Wallace might have been a CBS newsman.

That ignorance by American students of the basic history of the civil rights movement has not changed — in fact, it has worsened, according to a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, on whose board Mr. Bond sits. The report says that states’ academic standards for public schools are one major cause of the problem.

“Across the country, state educational standards virtually ignore our civil rights history,” concludes the report, which is to be released on Wednesday.

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- The New York Times, “Students’ Knowledge of Civil Rights History Has Deteriorated, Study Finds.”

Shame.

(via inothernews)

auntada: Attorney Charles H. Houston presenting a brief before...

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:35:55 -0400

auntada:

Attorney Charles H. Houston presenting a brief before government agency

Addison N. Scurlock, photographer

1931

Here’s why Houston was called “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow”.

glaringthruthepromise: Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:35:05 -0400

glaringthruthepromise:

Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come

pantslessprogressive: Dr. Cornel West at the Occupy Wall...

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:19:16 -0400

pantslessprogressive:

Dr. Cornel West at the Occupy Wall Street protest Tuesday evening. [Photo: @linktothepast86]

Can’t NOT reblog Cornel West.

madelineandnine: Really should be keeping this in the forefront...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:50:53 -0400

madelineandnine:

Really should be keeping this in the forefront of my mind.

afrosoul: Cleveland Sellers Refusing the Draft “Outside of an...

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:55:51 -0400

afrosoul:

Cleveland Sellers Refusing the Draft
“Outside of an Atlanta Armed Forces induction station Cleveland Sellers (right) talked with reporters. Sellers, a top aid to Black Power advocate Stokely Carmichael (standing behind Sellers) in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, followed the urging of Dr. Martin Luther King and refused to be drafted into the Army and told newsmen he said ‘No’ to the U.S. Army.”

Cleveland Sellers is the man.

"The 10 Most Segregated Urban Areas in America"

Mon, 16 May 2011 13:37:05 -0400

"The 10 Most Segregated Urban Areas in America":

Interesting article, interesting slideshow - all goes back to the unfortunate fact that we are not so integrated after all.

Barack Obama in a Black History Minute from 1991 -...

Mon, 16 May 2011 13:31:58 -0400

Barack Obama in a Black History Minute from 1991 - Commemorating Charles Hamilton Houston