Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895-April 22, 1950) was a black lawyer who helped play a role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and helped train future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall. Known as “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow”, he played a role in nearly every civil rights case before the Supreme Court between 1930 and Brown v. Board of Education (1954). … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Movement
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Thursday Open Thread: Race Riots in America
GOOD MORNING P.O.U.! THE ELAINE RACE RIOT Philips County, Arkansas The Elaine race riot, also called the Elaine massacre, began on September 30–October 1, 1919 at Hoop Spur in the vicinity of Elaine in rural Phillips County, Arkansas. With an estimated 100 to 237 blacks killed, along with five white men, it is considered the deadliest race riot in the state and one of … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Race Riots in America
Wednesday Open Thread: Lesser-Known African-American Actors & Actresses
HAPPY HUMP DAY, P.O.U.! JANE WHITE … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Lesser-Known African-American Actors & Actresses
Friday Open Thread: Incredible Investigative Journalists of Color
Happy Friday POU! Today we feature another head of the NAACP that risked his life to expose working conditions in 1930s Mississippi. "Images of what I'd seen in Mississippi - the grim little river towns, rain-soaked levees, suspicious white faces, poverty-beaten Negroes...stayed fresh in my mind for a long time." Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Incredible Investigative Journalists of Color
Tuesday Open Thread: Incredible Investigative Journalists of Color
Good Morning POU! Today's feature is a former head of the NAACP. Walter White used his light complexion to investigate lynchings by posing as a white man in the dangerous Jim Crow South. His actions, if discovered by anyone at these murderous events, would have led to his own immediate and brutal demise. Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Incredible Investigative Journalists of Color