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i-earthlovin-hippiebear93 · 4 years

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#Repost @iamnotdanniel • • • • • • Few outside South Africa paid much attention to apartheid before June 16, 1976, when several thousand Soweto students set out to protest the introduction of mandatory Afrikaans-language instruction in their township schools. Along the way they gathered youngsters from other schools, including a 13-year-old student named Hector Pieterson. Skirmishes started to break out with the police, and at one point officers fired tear gas. When students hurled stones, the police shot real bullets into the crowd. “At first, I ran away from the scene,” recalled Sam Nzima, who was covering the protests for the World, the paper that was the house organ of black Johannesburg. “But then, after recovering myself, I went back.” That is when Nzima says he spotted Pieterson fall down as gunfire showered above. He kept taking pictures as terrified high schooler Mbuyisa Makhubu picked up the lifeless boy and ran with Pieterson’s sister, Antoinette Sithole. What began as a peaceful protest soon turned into a violent uprising, claiming hundreds of lives across South Africa. Prime Minister John Vorster warned, “This government will not be intimidated.” But the armed rulers were powerless against Nzima’s photo of Pieterson, which showed how the South African regime killed its own people. The picture’s publication forced Nzima into hiding amid death threats, but its effect could not have been more visible. Suddenly the world could no longer ignore apartheid. The seeds of international opposition that would eventually topple the racist system had been planted by a photograph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #sowetouprising #blackpanter #1970s #70s #photography #photo #photooftheday #blackandwhite #bnw #black #pride #blackpride #theblaquelioness #history #fuckracism #blackhistory #southafrica #justiceforgeorgefloyd #negro #revolution https://www.instagram.com/p/CBSAGgYnCA6eIHJG_xg2cCeaubNnHL2ANyIUlA0/?igshid=1tzg72tap42vp

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spanky606 · 5 years

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Reposted from @theshayharris - My Shero!!! @Regrann from @mediaoutrage1 - @Regrann from @theblaquelioness - Great Read 🤓: Elizabeth Freeman was probably born in 1742, to enslaved African parents in Claverack, New York. At the age of six months she was purchased, along with her sister, by John Ashley of Sheffield, Massachusetts, whom she served until she was nearly forty. By then she was known as "Mum Bett," and had a young daughter known as "Little Bett." Her husband had been killed while fighting in the Revolutionary War. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ One day, the mistress angrily tried to hit Mum Bett's sister with a heated kitchen shovel. Mum Bett intervened and received the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to return. When Colonel Ashley appealed to the law for her return, she called on Theodore Sedgewick, a lawyer from Stockbridge who had anti-slavery sentiments, and asked for his help to sue for her freedom. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Mum Bett had listened carefully while the wealthy men she served talked about the Bill of Rights and the new state constitution, and she decided that if all people were born free and equal, then the laws must apply to her, too. Sedgewick agreed to take the case, which was joined by another of Ashley's slaves, a man called Brom. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Brom & Bett v. Ashley was argued before a county court. The jury ruled in favor of Bett and Brom, making them the first enslaved African Americans to be freed under the Massachusetts constitution of 1780, and ordered Ashley to pay them thirty shillings and costs. This municipal case set a precedent that was affirmed by the state courts in the Quock Walker case and ultimately led to the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ After the ruling, despite pleas from Colonel Ashley that she return and work for him for wages, Mum Bett went to work for the Sedgewicks. She stayed with them as their housekeeper for years, eventually setting up house with her daughter. She became a much sought-after nurse and midwife. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ #ElizabethFreeman / #MumBett #HerStory #BlackWomenInHistory #BlackHistory #History #LestWeForget #theblaquelioness - #regrann #Med https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt8h987npUb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=clriepl2zioo

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chexawe · 5 years

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Reposted from @indigenousgoddessgang - Six Ways Albert Einstein Fought for Civil Rights. • • • Via @theblaquelioness: . 1. Shortly before Einstein fled Nazi Europe, Einstein backed a campaign to defend the Scottsboro Boys, nine Alabama teenagers who were falsely accused of rape in 1931. . 2. When Princeton's Nassau Inn refused to rent a room to contralto opera star Marian Anderson because of her skin color, Einstein invited the singer home as his guest. Their friendship lasted from 1937 until his death in 1955, and Anderson stayed with the Einsteins whenever she visited Princeton. . 3. In 1946, Einstein gave a rare speech at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, a historically black university, where he also accepted an honorary degree. The appearance was significant because Einstein made a habit of turning down all requests to speak at universities. During his speech, he called racism "a disease of white people." . 4. Einstein was a friend and supporter of African-American actor and singer Paul Robeson, who was blacklisted because of his civil rights work. The pair worked together in 1946 on an anti-lynching petition campaign. In 1952, when Robeson's career had bottomed out because of the blacklisting, Einstein invited Robeson to Princeton as a rebuke to the performer's public castigation. . 5. For decades, Einstein offered public encouragement to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and its founder, W. E. B. Du Bois. And in 1951, when the federal government indicted the 83-year-old Du Bois as a "foreign agent," Einstein offered to appear as a character witness during the trial. The potential publicity convinced the judge to drop the case. . 6. In January 1946, Einstein published an essay, "The Negro Question," in Pageant magazine in which he called racism America's "worst disease." . via blackamericaweb.com via livescience.com #theblaquelioness #alberteinstein #racism #blacklivesmatter #smashwhitesupremacy #whiteprivilege #bebest #notmypresident https://www.instagram.com/p/By38Q_UnTxZzuveXMiUgA5mvaexDQtwzRDTdC80/?igshid=4d8hupa4xt7u

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preciousari · 3 years

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OMG !!! This use to be an EVERYDAY OCCURRENCE, for ME !! PRAISE the Lord, for DELIVERANCE !!! Better Relationships and Opportunities !! #StayPositive #StayStrong #StayWoke #ILoveMeSomeMe #PowerfulWords #PositiveMindset #PRAISETheLordIAmEXQUISITE #PraiseGodForHISPerfectPeace #Repost @theblaquelioness (@get_repost) ・・・ Every day occurrence .... #theblaquelioness (at Dutch Village, South Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUDj3KXFAPP/?utm_medium=tumblr

#staypositive #staystrong #staywoke #ilovemesomeme #powerfulwords #positivemindset #praisethelordiamexquisite #praisegodforhisperfectpeace #repost #theblaquelioness

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voncrobead · 6 years

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#Repost from @theblaquelioness with @regram.app ... Like a lot of early inventors, #BenjaminBanneker was primarily self-taught. The son of former enslaved Africans, Benjamin worked on the family tobacco farm and received some early education from a Quaker school. But most of his advanced knowledge came from reading. At 15 he took over the farm and invented an irrigation system to control water flow to the crops from nearby springs. As a result of Banneker's innovation, the farm flourished – even during droughts. But it was his clock invention that really propelled the reputation of Benjamin Banneker. In the early 1750s, Benjamin borrowed a pocket watch from a wealthy acquaintance, took the watch apart and studied its components. After returning the watch, he created a fully functioning clock entirely out of carved wooden pieces. The clock was amazingly precise, and would keep on ticking for decades. As the result of the attention his self-made clock received, Banneker was able to start up his own watch and clock repair business. And Benjamin Banneker's accomplishments didn't end there. Borrowing books on astronomy and mathematics from a friend, Benjamin engorged himself in the subjects. Putting his newfound knowledge to use, Banneker accurately predicted a 1789 solar eclipse. In the early 1790s, Banneker added another job title to his resume – author. Benjamin compiled and published his Almanac and Ephemeris of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland (he would publish the journal annually for over a decade), and even sent a copy to secretary of state Thomas Jefferson along with a letter urging the abolition of slavery. Without Benjamin Banneker, our nation's capital would not exist as we know it. After a year of work, the Frenchman hired by George Washington to design the capital, L'Enfant, stormed off the job, taking all the plans. Banneker, placed on the planning committee at Thomas Jefferson's request, saved the project by reproducing from memory, in two days, a complete layout of the streets, parks, and major buildings. Thus Washington, D.C. itself can be considered a monument to the genius of this great man. #BlackExcellence #theblaquelioness

#benjaminbanneker #theblaquelioness #repost #blackexcellence

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respectmyhair · 6 years

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#repost @theblaquelioness “The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten,” says Davis, 51, whose family didn’t have the money for a camera. “I have this expression on my face — it’s not a smile, it’s not a frown. I swear to you, that’s the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, ‘I cannot believe how God has blessed me.’ “ --#ViolaDavis ❤ #theblaquelioness #blackexcellence #RespectMyHair

#theblaquelioness #repost #violadavis #respectmyhair #blackexcellence

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sls5s · 3 years

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sls5s · 3 years

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sls5s · 3 years

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sls5s · 3 years

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sls5s · 4 years

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sls5s · 4 years

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