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
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Monday Open Thread: Unsolved Civil Rights Era Murders
Good Morning POU. This week's topic is a somber one. There are many individuals whose lives were brutally taken in an effort to terrorize Black people into a degrading subhuman existence. During the first half of the 20th century, lynchings of African-americans were a normal occurrence. This domestic terrorism was orchestrated not by rogue, "lone wolf" men - but by local law … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Unsolved Civil Rights Era Murders
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
Monday Open Thread: The History and Legacy of Jim Crow
Good Morning POU! This week's topic will take a look at the very real, very violent, very evil system of Jim Crow. I will not hold back, now is not the time to turn away from what was and IS still the cancerous effects of legalized and horrific torture of a people. Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: The History and Legacy of Jim Crow