No Room for White Supremacy in History any longer

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1990 -  When developers and the town of Oka wanted to start building a golf course on stolen land that belonged to them and that contained a sacred grove and a burial ground, the Mohawk tribe around Kanehsatake, Quebec, rose up and occupied the area. 

Ultimately the stand-off with the police and the Canadian army lasted 78 days before the warriors gave up the occupation. The building of the golf course was cancelled. 

From this great documentary: [Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance]

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What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

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You can paint it in any color, but it’s unlikely that anything will change.

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Dancing to a swing band on a day out, (1930s America)

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How on earth would you feed a city of over 200,000 people when the land around you was a swampy lake? Seems like an impossible task, but the Aztec managed it by creating floating gardens known as chinampas, then they farmed them intensively.

These ingenious creations were built up from the lake bed by piling layers of mud, decaying vegetation and reeds. This was a great way of recycling waste from the capital city Tenochtitlan. Each garden was framed and held together by wooden poles bound by reeds and then anchored to the lake floor with finely pruned willow trees. The Aztecs also dredged mud from the base of the canals which both kept the waterways clear and rejuvenate the nutrient levels in the gardens.

A variety of crops were grown, most commonly maize or corn, beans, chillies, squash, tomatoes, edible greens such as quelite and amaranth. Colourful flowers were also grown, essential produce for religious festivals and ceremonies. Each plot was systematically planned, the effective use of seedbeds allowed continuous planting and harvesting of crops.

Between each garden was a canal which enabled canoe transport. Fish and birds populated the water and were an additional source of food. [x]

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This is literally so cool. Not only does it contribute to spacial efficiency, but the canals would easily keep pests, weeds, and possibly even diseases out of the respective plots. Companion planting and bio-intensive planting would be so much easier. Water-wise systems would be inherently present. Plus it looks so super neat aesthetically. I am just all about this.

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Indigenous civilizations invented sustainable development way before there was a term for it.

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The whole Pepsi commercial thing reminded me that people always mis-remember the famous flower in the gun barrel photo as being a young woman. It wasn’t. The photo, taken by Bernie Boston, is of George Edgerly Harris III better known by his stage name Hibiscus. He was a member of the San Francisco based radical gay liberation theater troupe the Cockettes. He died of AIDS in 1982 at the time AIDS was still referred to by the name GRID which stood for Gay Related Immuno-Deficiency. The photo was taken at a protest at the Pentagon. 

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I had no idea who he was, thank you.

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Five You Should Know: African American Suffragists

Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893)

“The crowning glory of American citizenship is that it may be shared equally by people of every nationality, complexion, and sex…”

Mary Ann Shadd Cary was born in 1823 to parents dedicated to the abolition of slavery.  Her parents taught her much about fighting for equality and often provided shelter for fugitive slaves.  Cary moved to Canada with the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 where she founded an antislavery newspaper in Canada.  After she was widowed during the Civil War, Cary moved to Washington, DC where she taught at public schools and lectured around the country on women’s rights and the women’s suffrage movement.  She studied law at Howard University and graduated in 1883 as one of the first black female lawyers in the country. 

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)

“Now is the time for our women to begin to try to lift up their heads and plant the roots of progress under the hearthstone.”

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an early abolitionist and women’s suffrage leader.  She was one of the few African American women present at conference and meetings about these issues between 1854 and 1890.  Harper was also a well-known author whose poetry and essays focused on issues of slavery, gender and racial discrimination. Her writings and lectures made Harper one of the first major popularizers of African American protest poetry.    

Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)

“Lifting as we climb…we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.“ 

Marry Church Terrell attended Oberlin College as a young woman where she became one of the first African American woman to earn a college degree.  After moving to Washington, DC, Terrell became involved in the women’s rights movement.  She focused much of her efforts on securing women’s right vote, touring the country to lecture on the issue.  In 1896, she and fellow activists founded the National Association of Colored Women and Terrell served as the association’s first president.  After the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, Terrell turned her attention to civil rights and helped bring about the desegregation of restaurants in Washington, DC.

Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961)

"When the ballot is put into the hands of the American woman the world is going to get a correct estimate of the Negro woman. It will find her a tower of strength of which poets have never sung, orators have never spoken, and scholars have never written." 

A prominent African American educator, church leader and suffrage supporter, Nannie Helen Burroughs devoted her life to empowering black women.  Burroughs helped establish the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 and founded the National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington, DC in 1909.  She was outspoken on issues she considered important to African American interests and wrote many articles for leading African American newspapers and magazines.  She used these articles to attack injustices endured by African Americans and encourage readers to take responsibility for changing their own conditions.  

Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (1884-1965)

"You cannot be neutral. You must either join with us who believe in the bright future or be destroyed by those who would return us to the dark past.”

Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin dedicated her life to supporting women’s and civil rights.  Lampkin began hosting local suffragette meetings at her home near Pittsburgh and organizing African American women to engage in consumer groups in 1912.  Much of her efforts centered on the organization of women’s groups and her leadership earned her the position of president of the Lucy Stone Woman Suffrage League in 1915. Later in life she also served as a field secretary and fundraiser for the NAACP.

Written by Alison K., Digital Content Specialist, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Teen’s scrapbook amazes Smithsonian curators

From 1938-1948, Laura Fitzpatrick photographed her friends and neighbors in Brooklyn and kept a detailed scrapbook. Her remarkable photos, unseen by the public for years, are now part of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Times were tough for many Black people in the city, but the new generation was filled with hope. “They were in a position where their parents weren’t,” . “Where they were able to get a good education and go to that Star Employment Agency and say: ‘Hey, we’re ready to work. we’re ready to become part of society and contribute. we want to be taxpayers.’ They were in positions where they can go to high school, they can go to college.”

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#BlackHistoryAllYear 

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Ernestine “Tiny” Davis and Willie Mae “Rabbit” Wong, members of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, in Europe on the USO Tour in the 1940s. There were several lesbians in the band, including Tiny Davis (no mention of Wong as lesbian) but love this pic so much! Tiny on trumpet, Rabbit on baritone sax ✨ #lesbianculture #internationalsweetheartsofshythm #qpoc #blacklesbians #tinydavis

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Rest In Peace, Emmett Louis Till. July 25, 1941-August 28, 1955

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🦄

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THIS IS THE INSPO FOR MY NEXT SERIES OF POSTS ABOUT PAST US PRESIDENTS

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Dropping knowledge. 

More history that our schools fail to teach

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Last year I randomly decided to read up on the annexation of Hawaii, this stuff runs deep. If they ever decide to take their land back, I wouldn’t blame them

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How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler

Reports on the rise of fascism in Europe was not the American media's finest hour

So the Smithsonian posted this an hour ago.  Just because.

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The Smithsonian is pulling no punches.

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When Hitler’s party won influence in Parliament, and even after he was made chancellor of Germany in 1933 – about a year and a half before seizing dictatorial power – many American press outlets judged that he would either be outplayed by more traditional politicians or that he would have to become more moderate. Sure, he had a following, but his followers were “impressionable voters” duped by “radical doctrines and quack remedies,” claimed The Washington Post. Now that Hitler actually had to operate within a government the “sober” politicians would “submerge” this movement, according to The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor. A “keen sense of dramatic instinct” was not enough. When it came to time to govern, his lack of “gravity” and “profundity of thought” would be exposed.

In fact, The New York Times wrote after Hitler’s appointment to the chancellorship that success would only “let him expose to the German public his own futility.” Journalists wondered whether Hitler now regretted leaving the rally for the cabinet meeting, where he would have to assume some responsibility.

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this tweet is masterful

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Right?

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do you ever want to check up on someone but it’s just not ur place anymore

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omg I do it anyway ugh

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