#U.S. History

[typhlonectes]

#eric foner #history #u.s. history #race #politics #USA

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

You know what makes me sad?

It makes me sad, and not a little bit mad, that there are disabled people -- even those who are Disability Advocates -- who hate Disability Pride Month because they're convinced it was invented by normate people to make themselves feel better. I suspect that's because it follows directly after June's Queer Pride Month, and, if you are young enough to not remember the history for yourself ('cause we all know it's not being taught n schools), it can feel like a leftover crumb. But it is so, so, not.

If I were Queen of Calendars, I might move Disability Pride Month to April, to commemorate the 504 Sit-in of 1977, especially the occupation of the regional offices of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Fransisco, by over 500 people, mostly disabled (with their personal care assistants). The Occupation lasted 28 Days -- the longest protest occupation of a federal building in U.S. History. Since Queer Pride Month commemorates a protest, maybe Disability Pride Month should, too. The biggest knock against April is the weather is still iffy in much of the country for pride parades and outdoor gatherings.

(Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was the legal predecessor of the ADA. And no, that's not a typo. Most of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was passed in 1973, but the one section that outlined rights for the disabled was put to the side, and ignored for four whole years, because it was deemed to be too expensive and confusing to extend civil rights to disabled people. It was the Sit-In in 1977 that finally pushed President Carter to sign it, and make it law).

Here's a retrospective report on the Sit-In from CBS news, that aired in the '80s (Auto-generated captions):

(the video is 6 minute, 12 seconds. But the news report ends at 5 minutes 42 seconds)

#disability pride month #disability history #U.S. History #civil rights protest #CBS evening news (vintage) #Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 #504 sit-in #youtube (auto generated captions) #Youtube

[archaeologysucks]

I just spent an entire day untangling a knot in a friend's family tree. It turns out that about 100 years ago, some careless researcher accidentally smooshed together two guys with the same name, in spite of the fact that they lived in different states. Even though this person appears on nearly 500 people's family trees on Ancestry.com, and dozens of people have submitted him as their qualifying ancestor for the Sons/Daughters of the American Revolution, no one has ever taken a second look and thought, "Hmm ... it's a bit weird that this feller was still living in Pennsylvania 15 years after he died in Ohio."

Anyway, I think I have it all sorted out now, and I wrote up and posted a document explaining my reasoning, attached to his profile on the tree I made. I hope it is helpful to someone, and that I'm not about to have 100 angry DAR/SAR members show up at my door with torches and pitchforks because I said that their Revolutionary War Soldier Boy ancestor wasn't actually, and they're not as super special as they thought they were.

#genealogy #the dar/sar is bullshit #people just like to feel special i guess #u.s. history #revolutionary war #sloppy genealogy 'research' is one of my pet peeves #people will just copy and paste any old bullshit without a second look or thought

[thatsbelievable]

#Did You Know? #facts #trivia #music #instruments #musical instruments #violin #u.s. history #presidents

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

This. This is a devastatingly perfect summary of the climate of the U.S. in the 1990s, the climate Animorphs was written in and responding to. Animorphs anticipates the post-9/11 cultural shift, because that cultural shift didn't happen overnight.

#animorphs #u.s. politics #u.s. history #war #wwii #the nib #web comic #nationalism #violence

[kp777]

‘An end of American democracy’: Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s historic threat

#democracy #u.s. history #heather cox richardson #books

[profeminist]

Bessie Stringfield the "Motorcycle Queen Of Miami"

"At the age of 16 Stringfield taught herself to ride her first motorcycle, a 1928 Indian Scout. In 1930, at the age of 19, she commenced traveling across the United States. She made seven more long-distance trips in the US, and eventually rode through the 48 lower states, Europe, Brazil and Haiti. During this time, she earned money from performing motorcycle stunts in carnival shows. Due to her skin color, Stringfield was often denied accommodation while traveling, so she would sleep on her motorcycle at filling stations. Due to her sex, she was refused prizes in flat track races she entered.

In the 1950s Stringfield moved to Miami, Florida, where at first she was told "n*gger women are not allowed to ride motorcycles" by the local police. After repeatedly being pulled over and harassed by officers, she visited the police captain. They went to a nearby park to prove her riding abilities. She gained the captain's approval to ride and did not have any more trouble with the police."

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Stringfield

#bessie stringfield #black women #bikers #biker women #u.s. history #feminism #feminist #racism #sexism #racial discrimination #gender discrimination #black women's history

[blkglhistorian]

Everyday I find something else that shows how strange(?) white supremacy is in practice. Like I remember joking with my sis n law how black people especially older black people prefer butter pecan ice cream. OFC it’s somehow connected to Jim Crow. Around the country, Black people were only allowed to eat Vanilla ice cream on the 4th of July. The racists will do anything to subjugate people wtf

#u.s. history #black history #food history #culinary history #jim crow #Youtube

[ruburnz]

cw for suggestive content and the conf3derate flag. (Two Tags I Never In A Million Years Expected To Have To Type Out. I Am So So So Sorry For This,)

my friend showed me this image and i IMMEDIATELY knew what i had to do…

#IT WAS FUNNY IN MY HEAD I SWEAR #woodrow wilson #fanart #u.s. history #confederacy #I PROMISE I AM NOT A RACIST #BUT THEY WERE LIKE. WHICH ONE OF YOUR PRESIDENT GUYS IS THIS #AND I WAS LIKE…. I KNOW EXACTLY WHO… 💀💀💀💀💀

[typhlonectes]

#feminism #U.S. History #history #USA #politics #memes

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Forty-One Years Ago Today (5th August, 1981), Ronald Reagan Fired 11,345 Striking Air Traffic Controllers, and Permanently Decertified the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization.

A quote from David Schultz, in the Encyclopedia of public administration and public policy (2004) p. 359 [cited in Wikipedia]:

"The firing of PATCO employees not only demonstrated a clear resolve by the president to take control of the bureaucracy, but it also sent a clear message to the private sector that unions no longer needed to be feared."

(Emphasis my own)

For the record, my father was a professional airline pilot, and a union man, and he sided firmly with the air traffic controllers. His life, and the life of his passengers, depended on the work they did, and he knew that they deserved to fight for decent working conditions.

#Ronald Reagan #History in my lifetime #Organized labor #U.S. history

[archaeologysucks]

The Smithsonian has formed a task force to address the massive collection of human remains held by its museums, which includes 255 human brains that were removed primarily from dead Black and Indigenous people, as well as other people of color, without the consent or knowledge of their families. The so-called racial brain collection was revealed by a Washington Post investigation. It was mostly collected in the first half of the 20th century at the behest of Ales Hrdlicka, a racist anthropologist who was trying to scientifically prove the superiority of white people.

#anthropology #u.s. history #human remains #repatriation #eugenics #racism #black history #native american history #filipino history #anti indigenous violence #anti black violence #white supremacy

[thatsbelievable]

#Did You Know? #facts #trivia #seal #seals #Abraham Lincoln #history #U.S. history #U.S. presidents #President #President Abraham Lincoln

[thepopculturearchivist]

LITERARY DIGEST, March 26, 1927

#1920s #1927 #u.s. history #supreme court #segregation #racism #louisiana #james weldon johnson

[usnatarchives]

Happy Bill of Rights Day!

Happy Bill of Rights Day! Today, we celebrate the adoption of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, which were added on December 15, 1791. These amendments, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were designed to protect the fundamental rights of American citizens.

The Bill of Rights was not originally part of the United States Constitution. The Constitution was ratified by the states in 1788, but it did not include any explicit protections for individual rights. This led to concerns, particularly in the smaller states, who feared that the new government would be too powerful and violate individuals' rights.

The Bill of Rights was introduced by James Madison in the first session of the United States Congress in 1789 and was ratified by the states in 1791. It contains several individual rights and protections, including the right to freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, the right to a fair and speedy trial, and the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.

What does the #BillOfRights say? You can read a full transcript on our website: www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights 

#DidYouKnow that the document was engrossed between September 25 and 28, 1789, and it was signed at Federal Hall in New York City on September 28, 1789. But the rest was shrouded in mystery. 

Discover more about the Bill of Rights and how this mystery was solved on the Pieces of History blog:

Image 1: Bill of Rights, 1789.

Image 2: Letter from President George Washington Transmitting Copies of Maryland’s Ratification of the Bill of Rights.

#Bill of Rights #Bill of Rights Day #u.s. constitution #History #U.S. History

[kp777]

#corporate tax #u.s. history #ronald reagan #reaganomics #thom hartmann