Black and Education

Black and Education

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Black and Education episodes

  • A Massacre and American Uprising: Wilmington, NC 1898 (Part 3)
    “They went from there across the railroad into what is known as Darktown
    and Brooklyn; they had sent a committee to remove all the white women and
    their children down town, where they had prepared a guard to keep them
    secure. They marched through the streets protected by these military and
    citizen regulators, perfectly safe.”
    16 min
  • A Massacre and American Uprising: Wilmington, NC 1898 (Part 2)
    Once the supporters of white supremacy in New Hanover County (Wilmington,
    NC) gained the desired victories on election day, November 8, 1898, they
    were not finished. There were other offices in the city they wanted such as
    mayor of the city, chief of police and aldermen—even though those positions
    were not on the ballot or up for change.
    7 min
  • A Massacre and American Uprising: Wilmington, NC 1898 (Part 1)
    “There is little doubt that if a Republican ticket is brought out for
    county offices, the situation here will become more serious than ever. The
    Democrats, have carried out their part of the arrangement with the Governor
    by changing their candidates for the lower House of Legislature, and they
    are furious over the talk of a Negro county ticket.”
    9 min
  • Thurgood Marshall: His Most Famous Dissent
    I, for one, am unsatisfied with the hope of an ultimate “political”
    solution sometime in the indefinite future while, in the meantime,
    countless children unjustifiably receive inferior educations that "may
    affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.”
    8 min
  • Self Help: Her Words of Wisdom (Ida B. Wells)
    In the creation of this healthier public sentiment, the Afro-American can
    do for himself what no one else can do for him. The world looks on with
    wonder that we have conceded so much and remain law-abiding under such
    great outrage and provocation.
    To Northern capital and Afro-American labor the South owes its
    rehabilitation. If labor is withdrawn
    11 min
  • Breonna Taylor: Remember Her Story
    Breonna Taylor was in her apartment at about 12:40 am on March 13, 2020.
    Her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was with her. They had already turned in for
    the night and were in bed watching a movie, when Breonna fell asleep.
    According to Kenneth Walker, they suddenly heard a loud bang at the door.
    They didn’t know who it was and thought it might be some kind of intruder
    at that time of night. Breonna yelled, “Who is it?” They heard no reply.
    6 min
  • Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil
    I was born by a golden river and in the shadow of two great hills, five
    years after the Emancipation Proclamation. The house was quaint, with clap
    boards running up and down, neatly trimmed, and there were five rooms, a
    tiny porch, a rosy front yard, and unbelievably
    8 min
  • Robert Charles and Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B. Wells
    The bloodiest week which New Orleans has know since the massacre of the
    Italians in 1892 was ushered in Monday, July 24, by the inexcusable and
    unprovoked assault upon two colored men by police officers of New Orleans.
    Fortified by the assurance born of long experience in the New Orleans
    service, three policemen, Sergeant Aucoin, Officer Mora and Officer
    Cantrelle, observing two colored
    11 min
  • Kate Brown: U.S. Senate and Supreme Court Case
    On Saturday, the 8th of February, I went to the Washington depot at 1
    o’clock, waited until two, and purchased a ticket to go and return; I left
    the office and started to go to the car; on the platform there was a man
    who said, “Take the rear car.” I made no reply, but went in and took my
    seat in what they call the white people’s car; the cars left here at 2
    o’clock, and I was about to return in the 3 o’clock
    12 min
  • Chapter 11 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    I now come to that part of my life during which I planned, and finally
    succeeded in making, my escape from slavery. But before narrating any of
    the peculiar circumstances, I deem it proper to make known my intention not
    to state all the facts connected with the transaction. My reasons for
    pursuing this course may be understood from the following: First, were I to
    give a minute statement of all the facts, it is not only possible, but
    quite probable, that others would thereby be involved in the most
    28 min

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