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**Spawning Fish** @ptkulpinski@mastodon.social · Jun 19

Spawning Fish @ptkulpinski@mastodon.social

Juneteenth and Why It Matters
“Our history matters. Juneteenth is the celebration of a new nation, one that would honor the equality of all Americans—and one that, 160 years after it was established, we are in danger of losing as those in power set about rewriting the record.” - Heather Cox Richardson

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E7UaaAyPqPY&pp=4gcKEghzdWJzdGFjaw%3D%3D

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#juneteenth #slavery #confederate

**MikeDunnAuthor** @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · Jun 7

Jun 7

MikeDunnAuthor @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social

Today in Labor History June 7, 1892: The authorities arrested Homer Plessy for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train. He lost the resulting court case, the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision, which codified segregation and paved the way for Jim Crow. The ruling is commonly known as “separate, but equal,” and was later ruled “unequal” in actuality, in 1954, in Brown v Board of Education.

On the one-year anniversary of Plessy’s act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi was forcibly ejected from a train in Pietermaritzberg, South Africa for refusing to vacate a 1st class carriage for a white man, in a similar act of civil disobedience.

1904 caricature of "White" and "Jim Crow" rail cars by John T. McCutcheon. By John T. McCutcheon - Cropped from the Mississippi at the St. Louis Fair cartoon by John T. McCutcheon, scanned from book The Mysterious Stranger and Other Cartoons by John T. McCutcheon, New York, McClure, Phillips & Co. 1905. Book reprints a collection of McCutcheon’s cartoons, some dating back a few years., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7774025

#workingclass #LaborHistory #plessy

**Stones of David** @SANKOFAB@zirk.us · Jun 3

Jun 3

Stones of David @SANKOFAB@zirk.us

The New Jim Code - Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology and Society - Dr Ruha, Benjamin

#tech #coding #ai #tiktok #blackmastodon #jimcrow #jimcode
#slavery #democracy #digitalenclosures #racism #whitesupremacy @blackmastodon @blackvoices @blackgirlnerds #cdnpoli #opensource #humanrights @BLKNewsNow
@politics
@humanities
@socialsciences
#canada #usa #africa #technology

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**Nonilex** @Nonilex@masto.ai · May 27

May 27

Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai

“My father & grandfather served in segregated units during the World Wars. They fought for #democracy abroad while being denied it at home. When my grandfather returned to Mississippi from WWI, he was forced to flee the state by #WhiteSupremacists who saw his service in France — as a #Black man in an unsegregated society — as a threat. My father returned from WWII only to be treated like a #SecondClassCitizen, denied certain #veterans #benefits & rights under #JimCrow.

#Trump #military #racism

**Liam O'Mara IV, PhD** @LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · May 21

May 21

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social

#History is not learnt through statues or #plantation tours. Any surviving #antebellum plantations should be seized and turned into museums to the American Holocaust that was #slavery and #JimCrow. Romanticizing the #OldSouth is an insult to historical memory and needs to end.

**Preston MacDougall** @ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science · May 21

May 21

Preston MacDougall @ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science

#BlackLivesMatter activists are joining the #resistance against #ICE (#gestapo wannabe) raids in #Nashville because they echo the unconstitutionality of #JimCrow laws and #MassIncarceration since they were overturned. https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/05/21/ice-arrests-deportations-black-history/83756026007/?tbref=hp

#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.

Nashville Tennessean · May 21Why Black America can't be silent on ICE arrests and deportations | OpinionIn Nashville, as ICE and THP arrest and detain immigrants, the Black community, which has long depended on allies, has an obligation to speak up.

**MikeDunnAuthor** @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · May 14

May 14

MikeDunnAuthor @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social

Today in Labor History May 14, 1961: Racists bombed and burned a bus full of Freedom Riders in Alabama. They shot out the tires and threw smoke bombs into the bus, and then attacked the occupants with sticks. Racist doctors at the local hospital refused to treat the wounded.

Greyhound bus burns after being firebombed by a Ku Klux Klan mob outside of Anniston, Alabama. It had been carrying Freedom Riders, who all survived. 14 May 1961. By U.S. National Park Service - https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/f9f102dd14254e2e8d574b78f62e9ccc, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130324833

#LaborHistory #workingclass #bombing

**MikeDunnAuthor** @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · May 11

May 11

MikeDunnAuthor @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social

Today in Labor History May 11, 1963: The Birmingham riot began when racists set off several bombs targeting the African-American leaders of the Birmingham Campaign. The Campaign was a mass protest for racial justice. In response to the bombings, African American protesters burned down businesses and fought police in downtown Birmingham. They were frustrated both by the cops’ complicity in racist attacks against them, and the ineffectiveness of nonviolent protest. Governor Wallace deployed the state militia against the protesters. Many believe this event proved pivotal in Kennedy’s decision to propose a major civil rights bill.

Bomb wreckage near Gaston Motel. By Trikosko, Marion S., photographer. - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID ppmsca.04293.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3262984

#workingclass #LaborHistory #civilrights

**Stones of David** @SANKOFAB@zirk.us · Apr 13

Apr 13

Stones of David @SANKOFAB@zirk.us

Remembering Paul Robeson this weekend.

#BlackHistory

#usa
#PaulRobeson #BlackMastodon #africa #racism #genocide @blackvoices
@blackmastodon
@blackgirlnerds
#communism #socialism
@BLKNewsNow
#education #slavery #jimcrow

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**Stones of David** @SANKOFAB@zirk.us · Apr 13

Apr 13

Stones of David @SANKOFAB@zirk.us

How Black Labor Created An Interracial Movement.mp3

#blackhistory

#afl #socialism #blackmastodon #usa #union @blackmastodon
@BLKNewsNow #desegregation #segregation #apartheid #jimcrow #labor
@blackvoices #resistance #protest #tiktok

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**Stones of David** @SANKOFAB@zirk.us · Apr 12

Apr 12

Stones of David @SANKOFAB@zirk.us

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
@blackmastodon
@BLKNewsNow
#mexico #mahmoudkhalil #palestine #gaza

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**Catherine Schmidt** @lillyfinch@mstdn.social · Apr 10

Apr 10

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#history #alt #civilwar #jimcrow #Racism #politics
Heather Cox Richardson Jim Crow 4/9/205

Heather Cox Richardson Jim Crow 4/9/205
With no penalty for their attempt to overthrow democracy, those who thought that white men were better than others began to insist that their cause was just and that they had lost the war only because they had been overpowered. They continued to work to make their ideology the law of the land. That idea inspired the Jim Crow and Juan Crow laws of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the policies that crowded Indigenous Americans onto reservations where disease and malnutrition killed many of them and lack of opportunity pushed the rest into poverty. In the 1930s, Nazi leaders, lawyers, and judges turned to America’s Jim Crow laws and Indian reservations for inspiration on how to create legal hierarchies that would, at the very least, wall certain populations off from white society. More Americans than we like to believe embraced facism here, too: in February 1939, more than 20,000 people showed up for a “true Americanism” rally held by Nazis at New York City’'s Madison Square Garden, featuring a huge portrait of George Washington in his Continental Army uniform flanked by swastikas.

**Frankie** @Some_Emo_Chick@mastodon.social · Apr 10 *

Apr 10 *

Frankie @Some_Emo_Chick@mastodon.social

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/

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#history #civilrights #scotus

**Nonilex** @Nonilex@masto.ai · Apr 6

Apr 6

Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai

#GiftArticle

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

The Washington Post · Apr 6Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground RailroadBy Jon Swaine

**The Electronic Intifada** @electronicintifada.net@web.brid.gy · Apr 4

Apr 4

The Electronic Intifada @electronicintifada.net@web.brid.gy

Palestine is not so complicated

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-not-so-complicated/50560

#jimcrow

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**Nonilex** @Nonilex@masto.ai · Mar 29

Mar 29

Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai

“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.

#Trump #Smithsonian #AmericanHistory

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**Nonilex** @Nonilex@masto.ai · Mar 29 *

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Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai

#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.

#whitewashing #censorship #WhiteSupremacy

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**Zhi Zhu** @ZhiZhu@newsie.social · Mar 26

Mar 26

Zhi Zhu @ZhiZhu@newsie.social

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."