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Drawing on the federal census, wills, mortgage bills of sale, tax returns, and newspaper advertisements, this authoritative study describes the nature of African-American slaveholding, its complexity, and its rationales. It reveals how some African-American slave masters had earned their freedom and how some free Blacks purchased slaves for their own use. The book provides a fresh perspective on slavery in the antebellum South and underscores the importance of African Americans in the…

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Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike (1968) Beaucoup d'entre nous savent que Martin Luther King a été assassiné à Memphis, dans le Tennessee, mais ils ne savent peut-être pas pourquoi il s'y trouvait. Le chef de file du mouvement en faveur des droits civiques était venu manifester sa solidarité avec les 1300 éboueurs en grève, principalement des Afro-Américains, qui protestaient contre leurs pénibles conditions de travail, leur salaire de misère et le refus de la ville de reconnaître leur…

Donna Jean Barksdale, 11, took a front-row seat and was left alone by white students when Hoxie, Arkansas voluntarily integrated schools in 1955.  In part because the Hoxie School District did not have the funds to maintain separate schools, the District moved to abolish its dual educational system by integrating black children into its all-white schools, where approximately 1,000 white children attended. Twenty-one Black students attended on the first day of classes.  Although there were no ini A Change Is Gonna Come, Black Fact, By Any Means Necessary, Black Knowledge, History Education, Interesting History, African History, African American History, Social Distancing

Donna Jean Barksdale, 11, took a front-row seat and was left alone by white students when Hoxie, Arkansas voluntarily integrated schools in 1955. In part because the Hoxie School District did not have the funds to maintain separate schools, the District moved to abolish its dual educational system by integrating black children into its all-white schools, where approximately 1,000 white children attended. Twenty-one Black students attended on the first day of classes. Although there were no…

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