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Eddie Smith
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If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.~ African Proverb Creator of ⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ discussion threads. Keep it woke!👁
Dec 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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🧵 On Dec. 24th, 1881, more than 5,000 Black people left a South Carolina town of in one of the largest post-Civil War migrations in US history.

This was the Edgefield Exodus of 1881. (cont)

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blackthen.com/december-24-ov… The Black people who took part in the exodus were driven in part by a wave of White violence and economic exploitation. They moved west and mostly resettled in Arkansas. The movement was also en­couraged by people like Benjamin "Pap" Singleton (below) who believed that (cont) Image
Dec 15 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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🧵In late May of 1887, a gang of White horse thieves murdered up to 34 Chinese miners in what would become known as the Hells Canyon or Snake River Massacre. It was one of the most brutal(cont)

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history.com/topics/aapi/he… attacks on Chinese people in U.S. history. In late 1886, a group of Chinese men arrived in Oregon's Hells Canyon and began mining for gold along Snake River. They were employed by the Sam Yup Company located in San Francisco. The men set up camp (cont)

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Nov 10 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
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🧵Eleven years before Claudette Colvin & Rosa Parks, there was a badass woman named Irene Morgan. She was the first Black woman in to refuse to give up her seat on a bus in 1944. (cont)

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blackpast.org/african-americ… On July 16, 1944, Morgan purchased a "colored" ticket for a Virginia-bound Greyhound bus from Maryland. She took a seat next to another Black woman on the back of the bus. Within 45 minutes into the trip, a White couple boarded the bus. The driver (cont)

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Nov 3 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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🧵In what was called "The Great Experiment", the all-Black 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps rode 1,900 miles across the west from Ft. Missoula, MT to St. Louis, MO in 1897. (cont)

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smithsonianmag.com/history/the-bl… They were nicknamed the "Iron Riders", as they were the first and only bicycle military unit in American history. Three White men were also part of the grueling expedition: 2nd Lt. James Moss, the 25th Infantry's commanding officer; Dr. James (cont)

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Oct 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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🧵The sexual abuse of Black male slaves is a subject most of you never heard of. "Buck breaking" started from ships and continued on plantations.

The following scenarios are disturbing.
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samepassage.org/how-african-ma… Slaves would first be stripped naked and whipped in the presence of a crowd, and after that, raped by the slave owners or merchants as a warning to other slaves.

This practice was a tool used by slavers to emasculate Black men and assert dominance(cont)

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Oct 21 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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🧵On Feb. 26, 1931, the INS under the orders of Herbert Hoover deported up to 1.8 million people to Mexico. An investigation in 2004 revealed 60% were U.S. citizens.

True story. (cont)

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history.com/news/the-bruta… On that day, INS agents and other local agencies descended on La Placita Park in Los Angeles, CA. Entrances were blocked to prevent anyone from leaving.

More than 400 terrified men and women were forced into waiting vans, away from their familes, (cont)

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Oct 12 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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🧵The Great Depression was a rough time for everyone, but no ethnic group was affected more than Black people.

They were the last hired and first fired. Of course.

It was Jim Crow.

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history.com/news/last-hire… By 1932, approximately half of Black Americans were out of work. As expected, White people called for Black people to be fired from any jobs as long as there were White people out of work.

This took place everywhere, including Northern cities. (cont)

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Oct 6 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
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🧵He was one of the most successful and influential Black men in Mississippi that you never heard of. Vernon Dahmer, a farmer, was murdered by the KKK for his civil rights activism. (cont)

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blackpast.org/african-americ… Dahmer was a businessman, entrepreneur and NAACP leader who had dedicated his life to voting rights. A devoted husband and father, he was well respected in his community by Blacks and Whites alike. He was one of the key speakers at Hattiesburg (cont)

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Sep 22 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
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🧵On May 2, 1964, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore were killed by Mississippi Klansmen who believed the two were part of a plot to arm Black people in the area. Of course, there was no such plot. (cont)

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#USDemocracy Image It is likely their whereabouts would have been unknown to this day if not for the massive search for the missing civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner (below). The bodies of Dee & Moore were found on July 12, 1964, the twenty-first day (cont)

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Sep 15 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
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🧵Slave insurance was one of the earliest forms of industrial risk management, providing an important source of revenue for some of today’s largest multinational insurance companies.(cont)

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Image Previously, I touched on how insurance companies used scientific racism to refuse granting policies to free Black Americans, citing that their mortality rate was high. In many instances, free Black people were still doing the same dangerous work they were doing as slaves.(cont) Image
Sep 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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🧵In post-slavery America, insurance companies used scientific racism to discriminate against Black people.

True story!

Many of those insurance companies still exist today. (cont)

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daily.jstor.org/how-insurance-… Prudential announced in 1881 that insurance policies held by Black adults would be worth one-third less than the same plans held by White adults. No individual contributed more to the myth of Black degeneracy and decline than Frederick L. Hoffman, (below) chief statistician(cont) Image
Aug 30 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
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🧵An integrated hotel during Jim Crow?

No way!😲

Three White men did just that. In 1955, The Moulin Rouge Hotel opened and was the first integrated hotel/casino in the U.S. (cont)

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lasvegasnevada.gov/News/Blog/Deta…
Image The hotel was the brainchild of developer Will Max Schwartz with the support of investors Alexander Bisno and Louis Rubin. They even brought boxer Joe Louis aboard as a "partner"; however his role was limited to greeting hotel patrons.
The hotel was(cont)
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Aug 25 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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🧵 When Black people were not allowed in amusement parks, they built their own.

Joyland Park, the first Black owned and operated amusement park opened to the public in 1923. (cont)

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blackthen.com/joyland-park-f… Established in Chicago, Joyland Park was founded by Chicago attorney Augustus L. Williams, Virgil Williams, editor Robert S. Abbott, and Broad Ax newspaper editor Julius Taylor. It was their way of providing the Black community of Bronzeville a place of their own since (cont) Image
Aug 18 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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🧵He was called "The Believer". Arthur Madison, an attorney, sacrificed his career to help Black people register to vote in Alabama.

He is an unsung hero most never heard of. (cont)

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montgomeryadvertiser.com/in-depth/news/… Madison, who practiced law in New York; saw the need to return to Alabama, the place of his birth to spearhead a voter registration drive. In 1944, he filed a lawsuit against the local Board of Registrars on behalf of family members who wanted to vote. He was arrested (cont)
Aug 11 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
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🧵They have spread race propaganda under the guise of science since 1937. The Pioneer Group continue to promote false narratives of racial inferiority among non-white groups. (cont)

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splcenter.org/fighting-hate/… In 1937, Wickliffe Draper (below) founded the Pioneer Fund "to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences."

However, Draper told a geneticist that he "wished to prove simply that Negroes were inferior." (cont)

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Aug 8 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
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🧵This is Celia. She was a young slave who was owned by Robert Newsom; who sexually abused her since the age of 14. At the age of 19, she killed him in self defense and was put on trial in 1855. (cont)

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#USDemocracy Image Little is know of Celia's background other than she was purchased by Newsome in Audrain County, Missouri at the age of 14. On the way back to his farm in Callaway County, he raped her. He housed her in a cabin similar to the one below; keeping her (cont)

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Aug 5 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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🧵 She created the gas home heating system that was a precursor to the system many people use today. Her name is Alice H. Parker, a Black woman.

Oh, by the way, that's not her photo.

"Say what?"

We'll get into that a bit later.(cont)
blackpast.org/african-americ… Parker was born in 1895 Morristown, New Jersey. She attended Howard University Academy, located and was granted a certificate with honors in 1910. She designed an indoor heating system using natural gas that she called a heating furnace. Her (cont)

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Jul 28 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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You probably think that this is just an old photo of little White girl. It's actually a propaganda photo that sparked the abolitionist movement.

This is Mary Mildred Williams; and she's Black. (cont)

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#USDemocracy Image Williams was the second child of Seth Botts and his wife Elizabeth, who were also enslaved. Elizabeth’s father was her white enslaver, Thomas Nelson. When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family's freedom in 1855, the seven-year-old (cont)

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Jul 20 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
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🧵In the 18th & 19th centuries, the practice of "resurrection" was commonplace. What's "resurrection"?

It was the practice of stealing Black cadavers for medical studies. (cont)

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face2faceafrica.com/article/how-u-… Black burial grounds were targeted due to being isolated with poor security.

Medical schools used the bodies for dissection. To be clear; the bodies of the Indigenous and other marginalized groups were pilfered as well. The bodies of deceased (cont)

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Jul 13 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
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🧵It was his death that sparked the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march that became known as "Bloody Sunday"; but many of you never heard of him.

His name: Jimmy Lee Jackson. (cont)

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Image Jackson, born in Marion, AL in 1938 was inspired to join the civil rights movement when he witnessed his 80 grandfather rudely turned away when attempting to register to vote. He actively participated in civil rights mass meetings, joined boycotts (cont)

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Jun 25 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
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🧵The man pictured below is plantation owner John S. Williams. In a rare outcome in Jim Crow Georgia, he was put on trial in 1921 and found guilty of the murder of 11 Black men.(cont)

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Image To get a understanding as to how this all unfolded; we have to go back to the end of slavery and implementation the Black Codes. Freed Blacks were arrested for simply being unemployed & homeless. They were placed in jail and fined; which many could (cont)

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