Monthly Archives: July 2017

VERY RARE Footage of Black Wall Street, Before The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot

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VERY RARE Footage Of Black Wall Street, Before The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot

written by Unstripped Voice July 3, 2017


 

If you haven’t heard of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, it was an event when on May 31 – June 1, 1921, a white mob attached residents and businesses of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

This area was also known as Black Wall Street.

As part of a new documentary from the Smithsonian Channel, a rare, brand-new footage of Black Wall Street was uncovered after not seeing the light of day for more than 50 years! Also part of this footage is the only known color video of the day of the Riots.

Never forget your history.

VERY RARE Footage of Black Wall Street, Before The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot

Frederick Douglass: The 1852 Speech on the Meaning of the Fourth of July 

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Each year we reblog this with purpose. Repeat and repeat every year. LIFE LESSON #7: Lessons are taught until they are learned !

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Frederick Douglass: The 1852 Speech on the Meaning of the Fourth of July

July 4, 2009 • Joe • African Americans, history, Jim Crow Segregation, politics, slavery

On this Independence day it is well to remember a speech, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” given by the formerly enslaved and probably greatest 19th century American, Frederick Douglass, at Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852, at the peak of North America slavery (indeed, about 230 years into that era).

In this era Black Americans were usually not allowed at 4th of July celebrations in the slaveholding South, apparently because many slaveholders feared that they might get an idea of freedom from such events (as if they did not already have such an idea!). Also, Black residents were often discouraged from attending such festivities in the North.

It is in this very dangerous and hostile…

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