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Lynching

  • Sep 10, 1913
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Fifty-one Blacks reported lynched in 1913.

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Lynchings
One hundred and eighteen Blacks were reported lynched in 1893.
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Aug
7
1893
Police reform was never going to be easy — but now is the time
Fundamental reforms would begin with ending the “qualified immunity” of police, curbing the militarization of police forces, transferring funds and functions to social agencies, imposing residency requirements and finally making lynching a hate
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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media
The True Plight of African-Americans.
Some of the most dangerous big cities are: St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Newark, Buffalo and
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Source: ThyBlackMan
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California’s Black Lawmakers Call for Converting Protest Momentum into Change
As mass protests continued across the state Tuesday, the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) called for lasting change in race relations — as well as reform in social justice policy — in California and around the
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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California
Sponsored by Intellitech
George Floyd’s killing in Minnesota still hasn’t gotten an anti-lynching law through Congress
In 1900, the first anti-lynching bill was introduced by Rep. George White, an African
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Source: The Madison Times Weekly Newspaper
Northwest Enterprise (1920-1954?)
Founded in 1920, The Northwest Enterprise served an important role in supporting and maintaining an emerging African American community in Seattle, Washington and throughout the Northwest.  The newspaper served its community in five specific ways:  visibility, success, support of black
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Source: Black Past
The Black Unemployment Hits Highest Rate In Almost A Decade
According to a recent report by the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, the overall rate dropped to 13.3 % but the unemployment rate for African-Americans have risen to
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Source: MadameNoire
(1948) Harry S. Truman, “Special Message to the Congress on Civil Rights”
By 1947 the question of black civil rights in the South had become a national issue when a committee President Harry S. Truman appointed to study the issue called for legislation which among other things would to protect voting rights for Southern blacks and provide federal protection against
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Source: Black Past
The U.S. Protest Police Brutality 2020
The leaders and followers of the civil rights movement marched peacefully and protested against violence to the same deaf ears but were often met with tear gas, vicious dogs, officers in riot gear, the U.S. military and hatred and bigotry just like
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Source: The Florida Star
Sponsored by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Boston Professional Chapter
House passes George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
Bill creates grants to fund community-based strategies proven to be successful at improving public safety, reducing violence
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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media
(1946) W.E. B. DuBois, “Behold the Land”
On October 20, 1946, seventy-eight year old W.E.B DuBois delivered the address at the closing session of the Southern Youth Legislature in Columbia South Carolina.  Although this was one of his last major orations, he used the occasion to inspire his audience to continue the struggle for racial
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Source: Black Past
Oct
20
1946
Landmark Police Reform Bill Addresses Funding, Chokeholds, Lynching And Accountability
Led by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the Justice in Policing Act of 2020 ambitiously aims to end police brutality, hold police accountable, improve transparency in policing and create meaningful, structural change when it comes to how law enforcement does their
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Source: NewsOne
Sponsored by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Boston Professional Chapter
Opinion | I’m a Black American. I Had to Get Out.
The only colors that penetrate those dark memories are the blue and red lights of police vehicles parked on every other street corner, swirling all night
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Source: Unpublished Black History
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White Superiority And Its Impact On Black Trauma - Blavity
Along with that movement, though, we’ve inherited the trauma of regular occurrences of a stolen life and the reminder that our grief is often tethered to the whims of white
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BUWEMBO: If courts listen to noises outside a case, taxpayers
Sadly, Katureebe leaves when the perception that legal justice in Uganda is for the rich and the mighty still reigns
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Source: The East African
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Trump expected to discuss race relations and police at Dallas church
President Donald Trump will participate in a roundtable discussion Thursday with faith leaders, law enforcement officials and small-business owners to discuss race relations and policing during a trip to Dallas, where he’ll later host a high-dollar fundraising
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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source
Back to Terror of Lynchings Past?
Author and investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a staunch crusader against lynching at the turn of the last century, would likely have been included among the hundreds of thousands of people calling for a thorough investigation into recent hanging deaths of two Black men in California and
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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California
Sponsored by Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (MBLA)
Africa: America Is Better Than This - So Act As If It Is!
One hundred years ago or even later, a black man could be picked up by a group of white men in some states in the United States, accused on the spot with any crime that the white mob thought appropriate, and hanged to death on the nearest
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Lynchings
Fifty-nine Blacks were reported lynched in 1921.
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Dec
21
1921
Compton resident accuses sheriff’s deputies of beating
COMPTON — Dalvin Price has filed an official complaint with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for a videotaped incident of him being brutally beaten by deputies May
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Source: Homepage -
Sponsored by APEX Museum
Moore's Ford Lynching
During the late afternoon of the 25th of July 1946 four African-Americans were shot dead by a lynch mob at Moores Ford, Walton county, Georgia, about eight miles from the town of Monroe. The grotesquely sprawled bodies of the victims--the Coroner said at least sixty bullets were pumped into
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Source: Blackfacts.com
Jul
25
1946
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas is the U.S. Supreme Court justice who was thrust into the limelight in his 1991 confirmation proceedings, during which he was accused of sexual harassment. Clarence Thomas grew up in rural Georgia, attended Conception Seminary and Holy Cross College, then graduated from Yale Law
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Source: Fact Monster - Black History
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Johnson, James Weldon (1871-1938)
James Weldon Johnson, composer, diplomat, social critic, and civil rights activist, was born of Bahamian immigrant parents in Jacksonville, Florida on June 17, 1871.   Instilled with the value of education by his father, James, a waiter, and teacher-mother, Helen, Johnson excelled at the Stanton
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Source: Black Past
Sponsored by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Boston Professional Chapter
Jun
17
1871
Juneteenth event celebrates cultural expressions of African American history –
The virtual 2020 Juneteenth celebration was a platform of an interactive presentation video, weighing in on the cultural expressions of African American
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Source: Daytona Times
Police across US Speak Out against Minneapolis Custody Death | Afro
Police nationwide, in unequivocal and unprecedented language, have condemned the actions of Minneapolis police in the custody death of a handcuffed Black man who cried for help as an officer knelt on his neck, pinning him to the pavement for at least eight
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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority
Beyond health issues, justice is the most serious item on our national agenda | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Part of the frustration is knowing that it took 74 days for an arrest to be made, even though law enforcement had video evidence of precisely what was done and who did it; the quintessential justice delay is justice
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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group
Sponsored by Christo Rey New York High School
African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954)
The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The movement has had a lasting impact on United States society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil
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Source: ThoughtCo
On Juneteenth: A Call for Tech to Act to Combat Racial Inequality
6:19-8:46: Jesse Jackson’s PUSHTech2020 and the UK-based Colorintech launches a call for the tech Industry to make transparent, measurable commitments to fighting systemic racial injustice”Jesse Jackson’s PUSHTech2020 and the UK-based Colorintech launches a call for the tech Industry to make
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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News
Sponsored by NSBE Boston
Anti-lynching Bill Proposed
African American Congressman George H. White,R-North Carolina, introduced a bill to make lynching of Americans a federal offense. The bill died in committee. In 1900, 105 African Americans were lynched in the United States.
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Sponsored by Greater Boston Veterans Collaborative
Jan
20
1900
Brother of Robert Fuller, California Man Found Hanged In Tree, Gunned Down by L.A. Sheriff’s Deputies a Week Later In Nearby City
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed the half-brother of Robert Fuller, a Black man found hanged in a tree in a Southern California town earlier this month, after a traffic stop in the city of Rosamond on the afternoon of Wednesday, June
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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

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