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Kat O’Brien

These freaking racist segregationists!
You can not accurately talk about the Civil War (U.S.) and talk about unity and harmony; you can’t accurately describe the Underground Railroad without noting that slavery was something white people violently imposed on Black people
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#GiftLink #racism #segregation #bigotry

The Washington Post · Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground RailroadBy Jon Swaine
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 31, 1966: There was a two-day boycott of Seattle schools protesting segregation. The protest was organized by the Central Area Civil Rights Committee (CACRC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The organizers set up eight “Freedom Schools” to educate students who walked out of class. But they had to scramble to come up with dozens more because so many students honored the boycott. The “Freedom Schools” taught African American history and the history of the civil rights movement, among other things.

Front page of the Seattle Times, from March 31, 1966, showing the protests and discussing the
#workingclass#LaborHistory#schools
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 19, 1935: Harlem Uprising occurred, during the Great Depression, after rumors circulated that a black Puerto Rican teenage shoplifter was beaten by employees at an S. H. Kress "five and dime" store, and then killed by the police. Protests were quickly organized by the Young Liberators and the Young Communist League, which were promptly declared illegal by the police. Participants smashed windows of the store and began looting. The protest and looting spread, causing $200 million in damages. Police arrested 125 people and killed 3. Mayor LaGuardia set up a multi-racial Commission to investigate the causes of the riot, headed by African-American sociologist E. Franklin Frazier and with members including labor leader A. Philip Randolph. The identified "injustices of discrimination in employment, the aggressions of the police, and the racial segregation" as conditions which led to the outbreak of rioting, and congratulated the Communist organizations as deserving "more credit than any other element in Harlem for preventing a physical conflict between whites and blacks".

Front page of the DAILY NEWS, 1935, with the following headline: 4,000 RIOT IN HARLEM; ONE KILLED. Shows photos cop cops beating and arresting African-Americans
#workingclass#LaborHistory#harlem
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