August 19, 1963On this date: Sit-ins in Oklahoma ~ NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters in Oklahoma City … [Read more...] about Monday Evening Thread: On This Day, 50 Years Ago
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Tuesday Evening Thread: On This Day – The Brownsville Affair
(courtesy of PBS & Newsone) The Brownsville Raid of 1906, also known as the “Brownsville Affair,” in Texas resulted in the largest U.S. Army dismissal in the history of the military branch. On the night of August 13th, a shooting spree took place in the town of Brownsville that claimed the life of a White bartender and wounded a Hispanic police officer. Without clear … [Read more...] about Tuesday Evening Thread: On This Day – The Brownsville Affair
Saturday Open Thread: The History and Legacy of Jim Crow
Good Morning POU. Today, in our last entry, we take a look at how Jim Crow affected the education of African-Americans in this country. Plessy v. Ferguson established a constitutional "separate but equal" doctrine that would never actually exist. The southern states refused to provide more than absolute bare minimum support to schools for black children. Indeed, many … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: The History and Legacy of Jim Crow
Friday Open Thread: The History and Legacy of Jim Crow
Good Morning POU. We've all heard of Rosewood and the Tulsa riots. Sadly, those were not the only black communities destroyed by white mobs during Jim Crow. The loss of life was tragic enough, but the loss of family homes, land, heirlooms and community would effect the heirs of these horrific deeds for generations to come. Between 1824 and 1951 there were over 300 events … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: The History and Legacy of Jim Crow
Thursday Evening Thread: COURAGE
This is the face of COURAGE: Willie Reed did not know Emmett Till, the young black man whose murder in the Mississippi Delta became one of the most infamous lynchings in the history of the Jim Crow South. Mr. Reed saw him only once — on Aug. 28, 1955, during the last hours of Till’s life — in the back of a green and white Chevrolet pickup truck. Mr. Reed, an African … [Read more...] about Thursday Evening Thread: COURAGE