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#OnThisDay, 15 Apr 1960, Ella Baker convenes a conference of 126 independent student protest groups. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) forms as a result. SNCC coordinated and assisted direct-action challenges to segregation in the USA.
Baker was a civil rights activist for five decades, and advocated grassroots activism. She also criticised the misogyny she encountered within the movement.
Ok I'm making a new intro post to try to find more of "my" people out here.
I like the #indieweb, #aquarium keeping, #printmaking and other #art, I'm in #arteducation in various capacities (higher ed, hospitals, schools), force-free #dogtraining and #americanhistory (esp the #civilwar).
I am moving to #baltimore in two weeks after years of planning and trying to make friends :) Social and outdoorsy. #sober and a little #woo after #longcovid recovery.
𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞
#OnThisDay, 13 Apr 1933 Ruth Bryan Owen is appointed US ambassador to Denmark.
As well as being the first woman to be appointed as a US Ambassador, Owen had been the first woman elected to Congress by the state of Florida in 1928.
Earlier in the 1920s she had been one of a number of women directing films in the silent era.
"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own."
#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor.
As well as serving in the Civil War, and being a dress reformer who preferred to wear trousers, she was also a suffragist who declined to take her husband’s name when they married.
The Columbian Orator Taught Nineteenth-Century Americans How to Speak
https://www.neh.gov/article/columbian-orator-taught-nineteenth-century-americans-how-speak
#OnThisDay, 9 Apr 1939, Marian Anderson sings to thousands for free in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Millions more tuned in on the radio.
Howard University had wanted to book the biggest concert venue in DC, Constitution Hall, for her. But the Daughters of the American Revolution, who owned it, would only let white performers appear on their stage.
Read more here: https://carvehername.org.uk/marian-anderson-sings/
Newsreel of the time: https://youtu.be/XF9Quk0QhSE
"The largest professional society for the teaching and study of #AmericanHistory has overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning #Israel's "#scholasticide" (the intentional destruction of schools and staff) in #Gaza.
The... Organization of American #Historians, which publishes the Journal of American #History, passed the resolution on... 8 April at an OAH business meeting in Chicago.
A decisive majority of 104 members voted for the motion - with only 25 opposing it." https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/organisation-american-historians-votes-condemn-israeli-scholasticide-gaza
Restoring Lies And Insanity To American History
https://popularresistance.org/restoring-lies-and-insanity-to-american-history/
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
#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1979, Jane Byrne wins the Chicago mayoral election. She is the first woman to be mayor of the city and is sworn in on 16 April. She hires the first black woman to be a school superintendent in the city, and stops the police raiding gay bars.
Lori Lightfoot was the second woman to hold the post, from 2019 to 2023. She’s the first black woman and the first LGBT+ mayor since the post was created in 1837.
#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.
#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.
Professor #BarbaraFWalter, a renowned expert on #CivilWars around the world, warns that the #UnitedStates meets key criteria for nations heading toward major #PoliticalViolence. We ignore the warning signs at our own peril, according to the #author of #HowCivilWarsStartAndHowToStopThem. #AmericanHistory shows that the fight to save #Democracy will have to come from the bottom up, Walter says. “Protest and peaceful resistance works,” she adds. “Don't voluntarily comply with orders that are illegal. Don't help #DonaldTrump implement his agenda–don’t preemptively comply.”
#Anocracy - Anocracy, or semi-democracy, is a form of government that is loosely defined as part democracy and part #Dictatorship, or as a "regime that mixes democratic with autocratic features". Another definition classifies anocracy as "a regime that permits some means of participation through opposition group behaviour, but that has incomplete development of mechanisms to redress grievances."
#CivilWar #TrumpRegime #TrumpCoup #Fascism #DemocracyVsAutocracy #Autocracy
…The order is the latest move by the #Trump admin to quash recognition of #BlackAmericans’ contributions to the nation & to gloss over the legal, political, social & economic obstacles they have faced.
Trump’s approach is “a literal attack on #BlackAmerica itself,”Ibram X. Kendi, race historian & bestselling author, said. “The #BlackSmithsonian, as it is affectionately called, is indeed one of the heartbeats of Black America…&…also one of the heartbeats”of the nation at large.
It empowers #JDVance to review all properties, programs & presentations to prohibit programs that “degrade shared American values” or “divide Americans based on race.”
#Trump also ordered Interior Secy #DougBurgum to determine if any monuments since Jan 2020 “have been removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history” or “inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures.”
“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.
#Trump’s order accusing the #Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting #AmericanHistory notes correctly that the country’s Founding Fathers declared that “all men are created equal.”
But it doesn’t mention that the founders enshrined #slavery into the #US #Constitution & declared enslaved persons as ⅗ of a person for the purpose of the Census.
#whitewashing #censorship #BlackAmerican #WhiteSupremacy #racism #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-history-smithsonian-dei-687fd306dc9c6d7611300d74fe49b8aa
