Today in Labor History May 2, 1963: Bull Connor jailed 958 children in Birmingham, Alabama. Those not jailed got blasted with fire hoses and attacked by dogs.
Today in Labor History May 2, 1963: Bull Connor jailed 958 children in Birmingham, Alabama. Those not jailed got blasted with fire hoses and attacked by dogs.
How Black Labor Created An Interracial Movement.mp3
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@BLKNewsNow #desegregation #segregation #apartheid #jimcrow #labor
@blackvoices #resistance #protest #tiktok
Dara Lind on Criminalizing Immigrants.mp3
#usa #immigration #humanrights #democracy #xenophobia #tiktok #africa #eu #cdnpoli #dei #blackmastodon #racism #whitesupremacy #security #law #jimcrow #indigenous #freespeech #censorship @palestine @yemen
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#mexico #mahmoudkhalil #palestine #gaza
Today is the 108th birthday of Civil rights Legend, Irene Morgan Kirkaldy. She was arrested in 1944 for defying bus segregation and took her case to the Supreme Court.
You can learn more about her here: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/irene-morgan-kirkaldy-1917-2007/
Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali – „Green Book“ (2019)
Ob ein Film einen Oscar gewonnen hat, und wenn ja, wie viele, interessiert mich in der Regel höchstens am Rande. Bei diesem Roadmovie interessierten die hervorragenden Schauspieler. Und für die lohnt sich dieser Trip durch den rassistischen Süden der USA wirklich. (ARD, WH)
Amid anti-#DEI push, #NationalParkService rewrites history of #UndergroundRailroad
Since #Trump took office, the #ParkService -- an agency charged with preserving #AmericanHistory -- has changed how its website describes key moments from #slavery to #JimCrow
#whitewashing #WhiteSupremacy #History #racism #lies #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #USpol
https://wapo.st/4jdXL8m
"But this should be clear. It was not the codified brutalities pervasive in the Jim Crow South that 'primarily' served as a blueprint for Hitler and his henchmen, Whitman argued. 'The Nazis drew on a range of American examples, both federal and state. Their America was not just the South; it was a racist America writ much larger,' he wrote. 'Moreover, the ironic truth is that when Nazis rejected the American example, it was sometimes because they thought that American practices were overly harsh: for Nazis of the early 1930s, even radical ones, American race law sometimes looked too racist.'
Just sit with that for a beat — America’s racist laws were sometimes too excessive even for the Nazis.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/03/opinion/trump-musk-nazi-fascism/
“It seems like we’re headed in the direction where there’s even an attempt to deny that the institution of #slavery even existed, or that #JimCrow laws & #segregation & #RacialViolence against Black communities, Black families, Black individuals even occurred,” said historian Clarissa Myrick-Harris, a professor at Morehouse College, the historically Black campus in Atlanta.
#CivilRights advocates, #historians & #Black political leaders sharply rebuked #Trump on Friday for his order, entitled “Restoring Truth & Sanity to American History.” They argued that his #ExecutiveOrder targeting the #Smithsonian Institution is his admin’s latest move to downplay how #race, #racism & #BlackAmericans themselves have shaped the nation’s story.
I hope Delta gets sued back to 1952, which is probably where they get their fight attendants. Completely Unacceptable.
'Jordan, a financial director, “is not litigious by nature,” and was not overly eager to file a lawsuit, according to Norinsberg.'
Shakedown #Politics, Sabotage, Self-Enrichment: How to Talk About #Trump & Musk's Authoritarian Activities
https://lucid.substack.com/p/shakedown-politics-sabotage-self
" #Trump & #Musk are not merely creating another #autocracy along the lines of #Hungary or #Turkey, with inspiration from South African #apartheid and the #JimCrow South. They are innovating the #authoritarian playbook with their power-sharing agreement and their chainsaw & wrecking-ball tactics."
Today in Labor History March 21, 1965: 3,200 people began the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest racial violence. Earlier efforts to hold the march had failed when police attacked demonstrators and a minister was fatally beaten by a group of Selma whites. The five-day walk ended March 26, when 20,000 people joined the marchers in front of the Alabama state Capitol in Montgomery. This time they were defended by national guards and FBI agents. Soon after, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
https://www.charlottesville.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2110 Excited to see this. I hope my work as a local history researcher was of some use here. #cville #histodons #GreenBook #CivilRights #segregation #JimCrow
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5326118/segregation-federal-contracts-far-regulation-trump “It's symbolic, but it's incredibly meaningful in its symbolism” #segregation #JimCrow #USPolitics
Blue states need to step up and have laws prohibiting companies that segregate from doing business in their state.
IIRC, New York had something similar in the 1950s. There may be some old laws already on the books to be dusted off with a bit of updated language.
NPR: 'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
European fascism was and has always been a response to the siren call of USA plantation #slaveocracy, #ManifestDestiny and post-Civil War #JimCrow. if capitalists have to pick between enriching themselves thru slavery or the labor of free citizens, they will go with slavery.
Karl Marx told us as much back in 1861:
https://libcom.org/library/american-civil-war-karl-marx
do you get why #BlackLivesMatter is the most #antifa shit you can say in USA?
#MAGA is the negrofication of the white middle classes.
deal with it.