Posts Tagged ‘Jim Crow’
Voter Suppression Is Real and It Really Affects Black People
Although it has evolved into new forms, voter suppression still exists to this day. With midterm elections coming up, the new forms of voter suppression are more relevant than ever. Today, voter suppression can come in the form of voter ID laws, voter roll purges, voting place closures and robocalls that intentionally misinform voters, to name a few. Before 2006—pre-Obama!—none of the 50 states required voters to provide ID to vote. Today, 34 states request or require that you have some sort of ID.
Read MoreHas Hurricane Florence Destroyed Records of America’s Slave Trade?
Hurricane Florence has left much of the southeastern United States in a state of disarray. Archives and records containing information on the slave trade may have been damaged from the flood waters and the after-effects.
Read MoreAmerica’s segregated shores: beaches’ long history as a racial background
Schools, neighborhoods, and public spaces were segregated during the Jim Crow era. This piece touches on how America’s beaches and recreational areas were segregated during that time.
Read MoreHow the Obsidian Collection is Bringing Black Newspapers to Google
The Obsidian Project is digitizing black press from the Great Migration, Civil Rights, and Jim Crow era and making virtual exhibits available to the public for free.
Read MoreHey, Jeff Sessions: Remember When 6,000 White Americans Went on Strike to Keep 8 Black People From Getting Promoted?
An American history moment must include the disenfranchisement of African-Americans in terms of securing and sustaining in gainful employment. One such struggle was the 1944 Philadelphia Transit strike, where a mere eight promotions of black employees prompted the white male employees to stage a violent transit strike that resulted in the loss of thousands of soldiers’ lives during WWII. This all in protest against working alongside a few black men.
Read MoreDon’t Go to Mo.,… NAACP Issues Travel Advisory
African-Americans historically have subjectively lived in a world of racially based insecurities, malignment, threats, and even death throughout the United States. It seems to be “just a way of life,” for African-American peoples, still?Well, in the State of Missouri, there continues to be more of the same racially biased behaviors and attitudes bringing forth renewed restrictions in mobility brought about by new or renewed laws in the state of Missouri. According to the NAACP, Laws remenicent of days of Jim Crow, that dictated where, when, and how African-Americans can travel without threat of harm or death. Therefore, this law now has brought forth an urgency making it necessary to introduce travel codes and awareness methods and measures for the safety of African-Americans traveling within and throughout the State of Missouri.
Read MoreNAACP -On The Road To Change Part 1 – Civil Rights Organization Evolving To Tackle Modern Challenges
NAACP makes sweeping changes to their organization platform in order to better meet the modern day challenges that African-Americans face. Challenges representative of days ago, like Jim Crow legacies, laws, unjust judicial systems, housing covenants. educational barriers and restrictions of mobility in and throughout America for African Americans. New leadership is installed, new strategies toward improvement and greater inclusiveness of the youth is most important to how we effect change in the organization. Start by seeking opportunities that reach out and retain activists and activism involving youth of today.
Read MoreAttending College Doesn’t Close Wage Gap and Other Myths
From: The Root (February 6, 2017) Written By: Kirsten West Savali In a recent post, “Attending College Doesn’t Close Wage Gap and Other Myths Exposed in New Report,” Kirsten West Savali exposes the sad truths from a study published titled, “Asset Value of Whiteness” that unravels the relationship between race, class, and education. She writes: “Demos and…
Read MoreObama: ‘America has not overcome legacy of slavery and Jim Crow’
During an interview with Trevor Noah, the host of “The Daily Show,” President Barack Obama spoke about the state of race relations in the United States.
Read MoreABHM Exhibit Featured in German High School Textbook
A school book publisher located in Hannover, Germany, will reprint ABHM exhibit “The Education of Black Children in the Jim Crow South.” It will appear in their new book for high school students learning English, called “Abi-Box Englisch Niedersachsen2017 II.”
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