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Gutzon Borglum was, at one time in his life, a powerful member of the Ku Klux Klan, the nationalist, white supremacist organization created after the fall of the South in the American Civil War.

He also later repudiated his involvement with the Klan. Whether the repudiation was sincere or not depends upon who is being asked, as some modern critics as well as some modern Klansmen alike prefer to think that the repudiation was political rather than sincere.

This reaction is understandable when we look at Gutzon Borglum in is expansive, empassioned, larger-than-life persona which was caught up in perhaps romanticized ideals of Manifest Destiny as it applied to the creation of the Mount Rushmore monument. While the Indian Wars were over decades before Gutzon Borglum began work on the sculpture of Mount Rushmore, the tensions between Anglo-Americans and Native Americans was far from resolution, and the conflict was still a part of living memory in several areas of the Black Hills.

 

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In 1735 a French artist, Alexander de Batz (1685 - 1737), created this water color. The caption reads, “Indians of several Nations bound for New Orleans 1735.” The seated female is labeled “Fox [Meskwaki Nation] female Indian captive.” De Batz actually employs the word esclave rather than captive but understand that the Inoca notion of slavery was quite different than that of the Spanish, French, English, or later, Americans. The woman had most likely been taken as a captive and subsequently adopted by an Inoca family as part of one of the interesting ritual acts of the people of this region of North America. Note the presence of the “Negro” (African) child (this is the earliest depiction of an African associated with the Pays des Illinois). The adult male to the right of the African child is labeled “Atakapas” (a native society from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas). All others in the image are “Illinois.” The man standing to the left is labeled “Chief” while the crouching male is labeled “Dancer.”

 

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Casta colonial paintings from the 18th century. They are portraits from Mexico that represent images of mixed race families.

The paintings include a father, mother and one or two of their offspring.

All paintings include written (Spanish) descriptions of each person’s racial background.

 

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Rick James and Prince: Milwaukee, WI (1980)

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Assata Shakur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata_Shakur

Pac's aunt.

still alive and well.

 

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Pan-Africanist Walter Rodney (1942–1980) was born to a working-class family in Guyana. He earned his Ph.D. at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 1966. His thesis, published in 1970, A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545–1800 has remained a classic.

Teaching in Tanzania and Jamaica, he gained international attention for his advocacy for the working poor. Rodney founded the Working People’s Alliance. He was killed in 1980 by a car bomb while he was running for office.

From the Schomburg Center’s online exhibition Africana Age:http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-black-power.html

Awesome. Thanks. Always use his pic for my avatar.

 

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March 20, 1931 - Fearing a mob lynching, Alabama Governor B.M. Miller called the National Guard to the Scottsboro jail to protect the young black men who are accused of raping two white women. From left to right, the accused are: Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Andy Wright, Willie Roberson, Ozie Powell, Eugene Williams, Charlie Weems, Roy Wright, and Haywood Patterson.

So what happened to them at the end ?

 

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A monument in Stone Town, Zanzibar commemorating the selling and shipping of slaves from Tanzania to the West Indies in Zanzibar’s infamous slave market.

The faces of the sculptures were so powerful, you get an eery feeling that took a while to shake.

 

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Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies (photographed-Camille Silvy,1862) born into a royal West African dynasty, and orphaned in 1848, when five years old, when her parents were killed in a slave-hunting war. In 1850, Sarah was taken to England and presented to Queen Victoria, a “gift” from the King of Dahomey. She became the “Queen’s Goddaughter” and a celebrity known for her extraordinary intelligence. She spent her life between the British royal household and in Africa until her death in 1880.

This would make for a good movie

Are there any documentaries on this ?

 

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1920 - The Hampton Singers, composed of forty Negro spiritual singers, arriving at the St. Lazare Station here after a tour of England.

 

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Man making a transaction at the Dunbar National Bank. Opened in 1928 in the Dunbar apartment complex, the Dunbar National Bank was the first bank in Harlem to be managed and staffed by African Americans.

 

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(Photo was taken sometime between 1863-1865)
As slaves were freed after the Emancipation Proclamation, the United States government established "Freedmen's Villages" to house, clothe, and educate freed slaves.

 

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African American actors posing for publicity photos of a production called Pickaninnies in 1894.

 

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(Photo was taken sometime between 1863-1865)
As slaves were freed after the Emancipation Proclamation, the United States government established "Freedmen's Villages" to house, clothe, and educate freed slaves.

Amazing pics. Its sobering to know all of them, each and everyone has passed on. But I'm sure in that pic, in that moment that day seemed so far away.

 

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African Americans huddle around as two men prepare chickens for a cockfight, 1897.

 

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Bobby Seale looking over bags of food being donated to the black community.

I think it’s telling that folks are more likely to circulate images of the BPP holding guns than they are of them passing out food.

Even folks who supposedly support/ed the party. Guns are sexy and ~political~and virulent and masculine—groceries bags of food—that’s not what revolution is about.

Except, that’s exactly what revolution is about.

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FBI created this coloring book to make the Panther look bad....COINTELPRO was a muthafucka...

 

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fucked up pic:

 

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In the Tom and Jerry shorts of the 1940′s and 50′s, the only human character was an unnamed lady who was always after Tom (originally named Jasper), a cat, to catch Jerry, a mouse. Radio and film veteran Lillian Randolph provided the voice. The character is considered to be a racial stereotype known as a “Mammy”, a servant or maid of African descent, often overweight, loud, and heavily accented, and this has lead to some controversy. The shorts though, never stated that she was a maid and it is implied that she was the owner of that huge house with the well-stocked refrigerator. Also, the name “Mammy Two Shoes” was never used in the cartoons; it was given years later by the media, as typically only the character’s feet were shown. The shorts would be edited in the 1960′s. In some, Randolph’s voice was replaced with a plain-sounding one, and in others, she was replaced entirely with a thin white woman (voiced by June Foray.) Recent DVD releases have somewhat restored the original character.

As a child watching these cartoons, I had no awareness of the racial connotations. I just found the character completely funny, such as when she threatens to throw Tom “O-U-W-T Out!” I would hate to see this character completely erased, especially since talented performers like Ms. Randolph and others of her time are already nearly forgotten because they were mostly offered only these type parts.

Trivia: The Tom and Jerry cartoons won more Academy Awards (7) than the Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes did (5).

 

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FBI created this coloring book to make the Panther look bad....COINTELPRO was a muthafucka...

 

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March 15, 1918 - An Army recruiting officer testing the mentality of a Negro applicant by means of cutout blocks.

 

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June, 1964. Black children integrate the swimming pool of the Monson Motel. To force them out, the owner pours acid into the water.

 

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June, 1964. Black children integrate the swimming pool of the Monson Motel. To force them out, the owner pours acid into the water.

My god

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In 1936 a Harlem postal worker and activist named Victor H. Green decided to develop a guide that would help African Americans travel throughout the country in a safe and comfortable manner. The Negro Motorist Green Book (also called The Negro Travelers’ Green Book), often simply known as The Green Book, identified places that welcomed black people during an era when Jim Crow laws and de facto segregation made it difficult for them to travel domestically without fear of racial backlash.

Elders have stated that in those times, you HAD to use the bathroom and eat and do all that before you traveled… because YOU COULD NOT STOP! It wasn’t safe.

 

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July 15th 1799: Rosetta Stone discovered.

On this day in 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign by Captain Pierre-Francois Bouchard. The stone is inscribed with a decree by King Ptolemy V and is written in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script and Ancient Greek. Thus, the stone provided a breakthrough in the translation of hieroglyphs, making the previously indecipherable script understandable. The British defeated the French in 1801 and took possession of the stone. It was transported to the British Museum in London and remains there still as one of the museum’s top attractions.

 

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1936 - A crowd of prisoners stands in line outside the education department of Rikers Island Prison.

 

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The MUSE BROTHERS- The two black albino brothers from Roanoke, Virginia is unique even in the bizarre world of sideshow.

They were initially exploited and then later hailed for their unintentional role in civil rights.

Born in the 1890’s the pair were scouted by sideshow agents and kidnapped in 1899 by bounty hunters working in the employ of an unknown sideshow promoter. Black albinos, being extremely rare, would have been an extremely lucrative attraction.

They were falsely told that their mother was dead, and that they would never be returning home.

The brothers began to tour. To accentuate their already unusual appearance, their handler had the brothers grow out their hair into long white dreadlocks. In 1922 showman Al G. Barnes began showcasing the brothers in his circus as White Ecuadorian cannibals Eko and Iko.

When that gimmick failed to attract crowds the brothers were rechristened the ‘Sheep-Headed Men’ and later, in 1923, the ‘Ambassadors from Mars.They traveled with the Barnes circus for a long while. The brothers also toured with Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the 1920’s.

In 1927, their mother tracked them down and demanded their release.

However, the Muse brothers missed circus life, so they returned to show business. During their first year back they played Madison Square Garden and drew over 10,000 spectators. In the 1930’s the brothers toured Europe, Asia and Australia.

They performed for royals and dignitaries, including the Queen of England. George Muse died in 1971, but Willie lived until 2001 and died at the age of 108.

 

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Flora Stewart, who had her portrait taken the year before her death in 1868, was an enslaved African-American woman in New Hampshire during the Revolutionary War.

Newspaper accounts stated that most of the townspeople of Londonderry, N.H., turned out for her funeral, when she was thought to be the oldest American.

Here she wears formal long black gloves, a cape and a regal gaze.

 

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The world’s first black military pilot in aviation history was from Somalia? Ahmet Ali Çelikten also known as Arap Ahmet Ali, born in 1883 – 1969 was one of only two known black combat pilots in World War I, the other being Eugene Jacques Bullard.