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In "Racism in White America", DeHaven Jacque Alexander explores the deep-rooted issues of racial inequality and systemic oppression in a thought-provoking and impactful way. This powerful book challenges the status quo and invites readers to confront uncomfortable truths about race relations in America.

A must-read for anyone seeking to understand and address the complexities of racism. Get your copy today at https://www.dehavenalexander.com/!

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On this day - May 29, 1930

War Department Forces Black Veterans' Families to Travel Separately to Visit Loved Ones' Graves

On May 29, 1930, the U.S. Department of War—which had invited the families of veterans killed during World War I to visit their graves in Europe—denied a petition by Black mothers and spouses to travel on the same ship as white families and instead forced them to travel on segregated boats. With the support of the NAACP, a group of 55 Black mothers and widows, known as Gold Star women, from 21 different states petitioned President Hoover, asking him to allow all of the grieving women to travel together. “When the call to arms came from our government in 1917,” they wrote, “mothers, sisters and wives, regardless of race, color or creed, were asked to give their loved ones to the end that the world might be saved for democracy. This call we answered freely and willingly. In the years which have passed since death took our loved ones our anguish and sorrow have been assuaged by the realization that our loved ones who rest in the soil of France gave their lives to the end that the world might be a better place in which to live for all men, of all races and all colors.” “Twelve years after the Armistice, the high principles of 1918 seem to have been forgotten. We who gave and who are colored are insulted by the implication that we are not fit persons to travel with other bereaved ones. Instead of making up parties of Gold Star Mothers on the basis of geographical location we are set aside in a separate group, Jim Crowed, separated and insulted.” The petition was referred from President Hoover to the War Department, which ultimately declined the Black families’ request on May 29, 1930. Though Black veterans bravely fought for democracy and freedom during World War I, many returned home to find their own freedom denied. It was not uncommon for family members of veterans to also be mistreated and subjected to racism and abuse, as was the case here. Rather than being honored for their service, Black veterans and their families were often the targets of horrible discrimination, mistreatment, and even murder, at the hands of white Americans determined to reinforce white supremacy and to prevent the veterans from fighting for racial equality at home. To learn more about the culture of targeted physical violence and social humiliation that Black veterans and their families were subjected to, read EJI’s report Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans.

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Rest in peace, Toni Morrison. The Nobel Prize-winning author died Monday at age 88. Throughout her career and lifetime, Morrison spoke out against racial and gender discrimination, challenging deeply ingrained notions of inequality and sparking critical conversations through her writing. Read some of her most famous quotes and more about her life at this link. ⁠(📷: Todd Plitt/Getty Images) 

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October Newsletter: Emma on Racial Injustice

“[After] almost half a century of so-called freedom, the Negro Question is more acute than ever… Hardly a day passes without a Negro being lynched. … Nowhere in the country does the Negro enjoy equal opportunity with the white man—socially, politically, or economically, notwithstanding his alleged Constitutional rights… Race hatred is not limited to the Negro. To a lesser degree other races and nationalities also suffer from the same narrow-minded spirit.”

“The Situation in America” - Emma Goldman’s report to the International Anarchist Congress, Amsterdam, August 1907 — published in Mother Earth, September 1907.

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"Racism in White America" by DeHaven Jacque Alexander is a powerful, eye-opening book that dives deep into the complexities of white privilege and systemic racism. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the realities of racial inequality in America, this book challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths and spark meaningful change.

For an insightful perspective on privilege and race, this is the perfect book recommendation about white privilege. Learn more at https://www.dehavenalexander.com/contact/.

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On this day - June 11, 1967

Police Kill Unarmed Black Teen in Tampa, Florida; Civil Unrest for Days

On June 11, 1967, Officer James Calvert shot and killed Martin Chambers, an unarmed, 19-year-old Black man, and set off three days of unrest in Tampa, Florida. Police claimed that they pursued Martin Chambers that day because he and two other young men were suspected of robbing a local photo supply store. While chasing the Black teen, Officer Calvert shot him in the back. According to newspaper accounts, Calvert, a white officer, shot Mr. Chambers when he would not stop running and aimed for his shoulder but missed. Martin Chambers died later that day, shortly after arriving at the hospital. News of the shooting spread quickly throughout Tampa's African American neighborhoods. That night, citizens began a public protest that escalated into three days of unrest in the Central Avenue area. As the investigation developed, state officials took testimony from Officer Calvert as well as three young Black men who witnessed the shooting. The young men reported that Calvert shot Mr. Chambers after he had stopped running and had his hands up against a chain link fence. Calvert insisted that Martin Chambers was still running when shot and said he feared the unarmed 19-year-old would escape if he did not fire his weapon. After just two days of investigation, officials ruled the shooting necessary. Announcing the decision, the state Attorney General Paul Antinori claimed Officer Calvert’s use of deadly force against an unarmed, fleeing young man was necessary because Martin Chambers was a felon evading arrest. Without acknowledging that Martin Chambers had not been convicted of a crime, and now could never be, Antinori asserted that people who broke the law accepted the risk that law enforcement might have to use force to do their jobs. City officials and African American community leaders feared that the disappointing announcement would enrage the public and incite more unrest in the Central Avenue area, but the protests ended in despair.

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On this day - June 10, 1954

Southern Governors and Representatives Organize Resistance to Racial Integration

On June 10, 1954, governors and representatives from 12 Southern states met in Richmond, Virginia, and resolved to defiantly resist the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Released less than a month earlier, the Brown decision struck down racial segregation laws—prevalent in the South—that required separate public schools for Black and white children. Virginia Governor Thomas Stanley called the Richmond meeting to discuss the Southern states' options for responding to Brown. The governors of Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi had already publicly stated their intent to maintain the separation of white and Black students, even if it required dissolving the public education systems in their respective states. The governors of Louisiana, North Carolina, and Virginia had been less radical in their public comments but still expressed interest in exploring legal methods of avoiding integration. After a six-hour meeting, representatives from all but three of the 12 states present agreed that they would work to resist the desegregation ruling. Maryland, West Virginia, and Kentucky were the states that declined to make that commitment; notably, all three of those states also had comparatively small African American populations. Bold and unapologetic vows of resistance, expressed by the highest figures in Southern state governments, inspired and encouraged white communities to wage their own campaigns of massive resistance, characterized by threats, economic intimidation, and violence that spanned decades and spread beyond the South. Those outcomes were the foreseeable result of public rhetoric that denounced desegregation as a threat to civilization and stoked fears of Black children—but political officials who sparked the flame largely denied culpability. "No one had any thought of doing anything wrong," said Virginia's Governor Stanley after the resistance meeting. "Everyone is just trying to find a solution to what they consider a major problem." The Brown decision signaled the start of a cultural shift in racial dynamics in the U.S. and also launched an organized mass movement of opposition. Most white Americans, especially in the South, supported segregation and resisted all efforts at integration. This campaign of massive resistance to integration in the South discussed at this meeting in 1954 was largely successful. By 1960, only 98 of Arkansas’s 104,000 Black students attended desegregated schools; as did 34 of 302,000 in North Carolina; 169 of 146,000 in Tennessee; and 103 of 203,000 in Virginia. In the five Deep South states, every single one of 1.4 million Black schoolchildren attended segregated schools until the fall of 1960. By the start of the 1964-65 school year, less than 3% of the South’s Black children attended school with white students, and in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina that number remained substantially below 1%. Learn more about this campaign of massive resistance from the Equal Justice Initiative's report, Segregation in America.