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I wasn’t expecting that ending but he made his point 😭😭😭😭
During the 1940s it was rare for a black person to have control over large amounts of land. In 1944, a group of white men brutally lynched Rev. Isaac Simmons, a Black minister & farmer, so they could steal his land in Amite County, Mississippi which was over 270 acres A THREAD!
This is even more insane when you learn that the German public celebrated him as an athletic hero and according to Owens even Hitler(!) acknowledged him from the reviewing box.
President Franklin D Roosevelt invited each White Olympian to the White House. But not Jesse Owens who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. #BlackHistoryMonth
"If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." —Zora Neale Hurston
"Why aren't millennials buying houses?"
There’s a holiday about it coming up next week lol
On this day in 1955, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were aquitted by an all-white jury for the kidnapping and murder of 14 Year old Emmett Louis Till.
In 1938, Lloyd Gaines filed a lawsuit after being denied admission to the University of Missouri Law School in 1935 because he was black. The Court ruled in his favor & required Missouri to admit him or set up a black law school. He disappeared 3months later never to be found.
Hourly wage needed to afford a 1 bedroom in: CA: $31 DC: $30 HI: $29 NY: $29 NJ: $26 WA: $24 MD: $24 CT: $22 CO: $22 OR: $21 VA: $21 FL: $20 NH: $19 VT: $19 RI: $19 IL: $19 AK: $18 DE: $18 AZ: $18 TX: $18 NV: $18 MN: $17 ME: $17 UT: $17 GA: $17 . . . Federal minimum wage: $7.25
More than 8000 post black women in Mississippi and S. Carolina were given involuntary hysterectomies (removal of uterus) between 1920s and 80s when they went to see white doctors for other complaints. These came to be known as ‘Mississippi Appendectomies’
I just know slavery was 10000000x worse than we've been told
Did you know the desire to escape slavery, was once classified as a mental illness called Drapetomania in 1851. Black people were considered mentally ill for refusing to live in bondage.
Oil companies set the ocean on fire less than a week ago but white academia looks to blaming Africa for climate change as always.
When I put in my PTO knowing I’m taking off regardless if it gets approved or not
Lest We forget: The Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre, otherwise known as "Black Wall Street", May 31-June 1, 1921.
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