Slavery And The Making Of America

African History BEFORE Slavery

Ancient Black Americans

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THE NEW JIM CROW Online documentary

The New Jim Crow is a name given to a category of race-related social and political phenomena in the United States and the name of a best selling book published by The New Press and written by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. Alexander deals in the book primarily with the issue of the current mass levels of incarceration (the United States, with 5% of the world's population, has 25% of the world's prisoners) and other means of societal suppression of African-American men (Latino men to a lesser degree), and the social consequences of the policies described, for the "people of color" and for the country as a whole.
According to Alexander, the majority of young black men in large American cities are "warehoused in prisons" (their labor no longer needed in the globalized economy) or, after having criminal records and labeled as "felons", are permanently trapped in a second-class status. The conventional point of view holds that discrimination has mostly ended with the Civil rights movement reforms of the 1960s. However, the U.S. criminal justice system uses the “War on Drugs” as its primary tool in the continuation of many of the traditional and new forms of discrimination.
In an article addressing the status of contemporary African Americans, Alexander said, "The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who have defied the odds and achieved great power, wealth and fame". Alexander sees the masses of ordinary African Americans as being relegated to the status of a "racial caste", even though the official approach to dealing with the minorities has been redesigned, to avoid explicit use of racial attributes. According to Alexander, the forms of "racial control" evolve as required by changing political circumstances and contemporary standards, with the current "criminal justice" activities replacing the Jim Crow laws, which in turn had replaced slavery. Michelle Alexander aims to mobilize the civil rights community to move the incarceration issue to the forefront of its agenda and to provide factual information, data, arguments and reference for those interested in pursuing the issue. Her broader goal is the revamping of the prevailing mentality regarding human rights, equality and equal opportunities in America, to prevent future cyclical recurrence of racial control under changing disguise.

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Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole.
--FROM THE NEW JIM CROW
As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status--much like their grandparents before them.

In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community--and all of us--to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.

Legacy of Slavery: Reparations

Reparations for slavery is a proposal that some type of compensation should be provided to the descendants of enslaved people in the United States, in consideration of the coerced and uncompensated labor their ancestors performed over centuries. This compensation has been proposed in a variety of forms, from individual monetary payments to land-based compensation schemes related to independence. The idea remains highly controversial and no broad consensus exists as to how it could be implemented. There have been similar calls for reparations from some Caribbean countries and elsewhere in the African diaspora, and some African countries have called for reparations to their states for the loss of their population.



"The Shocking Truth In: Slavery, Reparations & White Supremacy" is an educational manuscript about the atrocities of slavery, how it is still effecting African-Americans today, and what should be done to help improve their present state in this nation and world. It is by Salim Abdul-Khaliq, and edited by Hannah Faye. WARNING: What you are about to read may wake you up, shake you up and cause you to take immediate action!









“My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest dealing with my fellow man.” –Callie House (1899)In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian Dr. Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House (1861-1928) who, seventy years before the civil-rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations. A widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five, House went on to fight for African American pensions based on those offered to Union soldiers, brilliantly targeting $68 million in taxes on seized rebel cotton and demanding it as repayment for centuries of unpaid labor. Here is the fascinating story of a forgotten civil rights crusader: a woman who emerges as a courageous pioneering activist, a forerunner of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.



This entry in the Lucent Library of Black History series looks in depth at the arguments for and against compensation for the descendants of slaves. Prominent activists cited in the book blame slavery for continuing racial inequality and cite compensation paid to Japanese Americans imprisoned during World War II and to victims of the Holocaust. Opposing views come from conservatives and those who fear compensation could increase hostility and send damaging, victimizing messages. With detailed source notes and occasional photos, this important title will deepen students’ understanding. Grades 7-12. --Hazel Rochman

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College student uncovers tape of forgotten Malcolm X speech

Malcolm X speaks at a rally in Washington, DC, in 1963. Excerpts of a little-remembered speech he gave in 1961 is set to be aired an event hosted by the Rhode Island Black Heritage Association as part of Black History Month.

College student uncovers tape of forgotten Malcolm X speech