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#tdih 1955 "I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder & Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another, & I could not move. — Claudette Colvin, #BlackHistoryMonth zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/clau…
At 15, Claudette Colvin had been politicized by false arrest & torture of her classmate, poet Jeremiah Reeves . . . she refused to move on bus. "'We’d been studying Constitution [in school #BHM] . . . I knew I had rights.'” -- Read: rosaparksbiography.org/bio/claudette-… via @JeanneTheoharis Jeremiah Reeves
Colvin’s case went to trial in May. The judge strategically dropped two charges (for disturbing peace and breaking the segregation law), found her guilty of assaulting officers. Therefore, appealing her case could not directly challenge the segregation law. -- @JeanneTheoharis
Rosa Parks invited Claudette Colvin to serve as secretary of @NAACP Youth Council. Colvin bravely signed on as key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, landmark case that struck down segregation laws of Montgomery. More in book ⬇️ & @JeanneTheoharis' site ⬆️
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Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks joined a long line of people who challenged segregation and other abuse on public transportation throughout U.S. history. See this list of dozens of stories from 1841 to 1992. And there are many more. #teachoutsidetextbook civilrightsteaching.org/desegregation/…

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1 Mar
#tdih 1874 Describing themselves as defenders of a “hereditary civilization and Christianity,” a group of Confederate veterans in La. formed the White League.

Stated purpose was restoration of white supremacy. #terrorism 1/4 [📷 teacher murdered by WL]

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Born #tdih 1868: William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois, one of most important scholars of 20th century. Sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, author, editor; co-founder of @NAACP, leader of Niagara Movement, and editor of NAACP’s @thecrisismag. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/web-…
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#PresidentsDay weekend: "Nowhere in all this information is there any mention of fact that more than one in four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery." -- Read ⬇️by @HowardU prof. Clarence Lusane, "Black History of White House" zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
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#tdih 1968 Over 1,100 sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike and marched for better wages, safe working conditions, and the right to join a union. (The most recent catalyst was death of co-workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker.) Read below & thread. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sani…
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#tdih 1951, Paul Robeson submitted a petition (edited by William Patterson) to the U.N. titled, “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People,” signed by almost 100 U.S. intellectuals and activists. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we_c…
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#tdih 1969. Assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark -- shot to death by police in their Chicago apartment. #terrorism

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