Continuing on with this week's theme, here are 5 more black history facts. FACT 1: Abolitionist Harriet Ann Jacobs published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent. The book chronicles the hardships and sexual abuse she experienced as a woman growing up in slavery. Jacobs fled slavery in 1835 by hiding in a crawlspace in her … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Little Known or Interesting Black History Facts
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Monday Open Thread: Little Known or Interesting Black History Facts
To close out Black History Month, this week's thread topic will be on some little known or just plain interesting black history facts. FACT 1: Allensworth is the first all-black Californian township, founded and financed by African Americans. Created by Lieutenant Colonel Allen Allensworth in 1908, the town was built with the intention of establishing a self-sufficient city … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Little Known or Interesting Black History Facts
Wednesday Open Thread: Sundown Town
An excerpt from a CNN online article about Vidor, Texas's past and present as a Sundown Town" Peggy Fruge told me she'd welcome blacks to her neighborhood. Then she said this:"I don't mind being friends with them, talking and stuff like that, but as far as mingling and eating with them, all that kind of stuff, that's where I draw the line." Read more … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Sundown Town
Tuesday Open Thread: Sundown Towns
Sundown Nation/ Sundown Towns are Recent In 1884, it was rare for a town the size of Waverly Ohio (Population 1279) to be all-white. Beginning around 1890 and lasting until at least 1968, towns throughout Ohio and most other states began to emulate the racial policy of places like Wyandotte and Waverly. Most independent sundown towns expelled their black residents, … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Sundown Towns