fulanigirl@blacktwitter.io · 10 months ago#politics #trump #fascism #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitterplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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D. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · edit-21 year agoRodney King suffered a fractured skull and cheekbone after being beaten by 4 Los Angeles, CA police officers, who were charged with a number of offenses. Many Angelenos felt certain of a conviction. Aplus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageRodney King suffered a fractured skull and cheekbone after being beaten by 4 Los Angeles, CA police officers, who were charged with a number of offenses. Many Angelenos felt certain of a conviction. Aplus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialD. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · edit-21 year agomessage-square0fedilink
D. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · edit-21 year agoIn WW2, the movement of millions of American troops to Britain, known as the “friendly invasion,” brought to light stark differences concerning racial segregation. Many Britons struggled to understandplus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageIn WW2, the movement of millions of American troops to Britain, known as the “friendly invasion,” brought to light stark differences concerning racial segregation. Many Britons struggled to understandplus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialD. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · edit-21 year agomessage-square0fedilink
D. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · 1 year agoIssued on July 26, 1948, Harry Truman’s Executive Order 9981 eradicated segregation in military. The response from the military units, however, ranged from muted to outright hostility. This was no surplus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageIssued on July 26, 1948, Harry Truman’s Executive Order 9981 eradicated segregation in military. The response from the military units, however, ranged from muted to outright hostility. This was no surplus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialD. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
D. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · 1 year agoExactly 75 years ago, President Harry S. Truman repudiated 170 years of officially sanctioned discrimination when he signed Executive Order 9981, calling for desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces. Thplus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1imageExactly 75 years ago, President Harry S. Truman repudiated 170 years of officially sanctioned discrimination when he signed Executive Order 9981, calling for desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces. Thplus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialD. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
D. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · edit-21 year agoField hollers, work songs, shouts, & cries held immense significance for enslaved Black Americans. Sounding like noise to slaveowners, these songs conveyed secrets through encrypted codes, retold Biblplus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageField hollers, work songs, shouts, & cries held immense significance for enslaved Black Americans. Sounding like noise to slaveowners, these songs conveyed secrets through encrypted codes, retold Biblplus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialD. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · edit-21 year agomessage-square0fedilink
D. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · 1 year agoThe G.I. Bill created the prosperity & laid the groundwork for the American superpower. But the postwar boom stopped at the color line. Black American frustration at discriminatory distribution of G.Iplus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkThe G.I. Bill created the prosperity & laid the groundwork for the American superpower. But the postwar boom stopped at the color line. Black American frustration at discriminatory distribution of G.Iplus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialD. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · 1 year agomessage-square38fedilink
D. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · edit-21 year agoThe perception of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X is one where the two men are diametrically opposed figures in the battle against white supremacy (political insider vs. political renegade). The plus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageThe perception of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X is one where the two men are diametrically opposed figures in the battle against white supremacy (political insider vs. political renegade). The plus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialD. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · edit-21 year agomessage-square37fedilink
D. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · 1 year agoIn 1640, John Punch, a Black-American indentured servant, received a sentence of lifelong servitude for his act of fleeing with two white indentured servants. The two white servants were given an addiplus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1imageIn 1640, John Punch, a Black-American indentured servant, received a sentence of lifelong servitude for his act of fleeing with two white indentured servants. The two white servants were given an addiplus-squarefiles.mastodon.socialD. Elisabeth Glassco@mastodon.social · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
