Thread by @NonHumanMedia1

I been seeing way too many people in the comments and QTs saying how great the 1940s was because of a picture showing Black Americans looking prosperous

All these photos are also from 1940s America
#BlackHistory

https://twitter.com/AfricanArchives/status/1493419862500298755

For those who don't know, sharecropping and forced labor was still the norm in the 1940s for many Black Americans; my grandmother included

https://twitter.com/DiazAndytwelve1/status/1494114818890084353?t=PK28_-oGtEXnUOJzEtrM-g&s=19

George Stinney, the youngest person executed in the 20th century at the age of 14 in 1944

https://twitter.com/misanharriman/status/1491839697320132610?t=11a8voXgJPKDIRBnOGG8jg&s=19

The 1940s also had several race riots where at any given time, a white mob could terrorize Black people and destroy our neighborhoods with no consequences

Here's photos of the Detroit race riot in 1943

A photo of the funeral of George Dorsey and his sister Dorothy Dorsey Malcolm

Both were Georgia sharecroppers who were pulled out their car by a white mob and murdered along with two others

The case was closed in 2018 without charging anyone

This is also 1940s Black America

As a group I feel that Black Americans are survivors

We've never actually had it good, but we've always "made the best of the BRUTAL circumstances of the times"

https://twitter.com/MRj4836/status/1494113107832102914?t=pgx4dm3zLZR9XYadkzU9FA&s=19