Pat Magness

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1834, authorities in Wheeling, a city in present-day West Virginia, charged four people with unlawful assembly for convening a literacy class for Black residents. https://t.co/dZV7PUTdM9

[Bread for the World @bread4theworld]

The vice presidential debate is tonight! No matter your politics, let’s unite to end hunger. Pledge to vote for hunger-ending policies by texting VOTE to 202-335-6799 or signing up at https://t.co/neBE6KKQmW.

#HungerIsNonpartisan #EndHunger #VoteToEndHunger #BreadForTheWorld

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1913, the Baltimore City Council passed an ordinance requiring Black and white residents to live on separate blocks. The law was part of the first city-wide effort in the country to create legally segregated neighborhoods. https://t.co/w4XXJFcGKE

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1966, 250 Black students tried to integrate Grenada, Mississippi, schools and were attacked. Twelve years after Brown v. Board, the city maintained fully segregated schools. https://t.co/uckl9dl54S

[Bread for the World @bread4theworld]

Jesus taught us to serve others, especially those affected by hunger. Bread for the World advocates for justice and nourishment for all. Join us in following His call.

Learn more: https://t.co/jdb9A7mmAS

#EndHunger #JusticeForAll #BiblicalThemes

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1963, white students began to withdraw from the newly integrated Tuskegee High School in Alabama to avoid attending school with Black students. Within one week, all 275 white students had stopped attending the school. https://t.co/Jofvuq2qjD

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1910, the Texas House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution encouraging U.S. senators and congressmen to work toward repealing the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted citizenship to Black people born in the U.S. https://t.co/IJZOTjjdom

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1838, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and found his calling as a leading voice in the abolitionist movement.

Douglass escaped slavery by boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. He was dressed in a sailor's uniform, provided to him by Anna Murray, (he married her 12 days later, she was a free black woman in Baltimore) she also gave him part of her savings to cover his travel costs, and carried identification papers which he had obtained from a free black seaman.

He crossed the Susquehanna River by ferry at Havre de Grace, then continued by train to Wilmington, Delaware. From there he went by steamboat to "Quaker City" (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and continued to the safe house of abolitionist David Ruggles in New York; the whole journey took less than 24 hours.

Frederick Douglass later wrote of his arrival in New York:

"I have often been asked, how I felt when first I found myself on free soil. And my readers may share the same curiosity. There is scarcely anything in my experience about which I could not give a more satisfactory answer. A new world had opened upon me. If life is more than breath, and the 'quick round of blood,' I lived more in one day than in a year of my slave life. It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe. In a letter written to a friend soon after reaching New York, I said: 'I felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions.' Anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be depicted; but gladness and joy, like the rainbow, defy the skill of pen or pencil."

Frederick Douglass first tried to escape from Freeland, who had hired him out from his owner Colonel Lloyd, but was unsuccessful. In 1836, he tried to escape from his new owner Covey, but failed again.

In 1837, Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray, her freedom strengthened his belief in the possibility of his own.

Once he had arrived, he sent for Murray to follow him to New York; she arrived with the necessary basics for them to set up home. They were married on September 15, 1838, by a black Presbyterian minister eleven days after his arrival in New York.

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1956, mobs of white citizens blocked Mansfield High School to prevent Black children from registering. The mob also burned a Black effigy at the top of the school’s flagpole. https://t.co/Kg7eHFAuPD

[Pat Magness @PatMagness]

@danielsilliman @CTmagazine Thank you Daniel. This is beautiful. And I have loved his hymns

[Pat Magness @PatMagness]

@CTmagazine @danielsilliman Yes—she was a great influence on me

[Save Ohio Parks @SaveOhioParks]

Small victory for SOP activists: Salt Fork SP fracking bid withdrawn, but Keen Wildlife Area and four ODOT parcels to be fracked. Darrel Rowland at WYSX ABC 6 reports.

@AlleghenyFront @KMKowalski @jake_zuckerman @ecowriter @AppVoices @KHayhoe @CreationCare @oliviaggilliand

[Missions of Hope International @mohiafrica]

Olympic diver Alison Gibson is on a mission to get over 200 children at @mohiafrica sponsored, giving them a brighter future and a chance to achieve their dreams.

Let's help her share the need, spread her message and reach her goal!

https://t.co/W2yX5923Fa

[Pat Magness @PatMagness]

Women for Harris National Organizing Call https://t.co/JoxHOPzZEO

[Bread for the World @bread4theworld]

Passage of the House SFOPs appropriation bill would make devastating cuts to U.S. humanitarian & development assistance programs and agencies, including @usaid & would defund a number of institutions at the United Nations, including @unicef.

Read more: https://t.co/DTpoPHaP0o

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“I’m a middle-aged Black man. I’ve got all of these degrees, I’ve won cases at the Supreme Court – and I still go to places where I’m viewed as less than, where I’m presumed to be the defendant, or presumed to be dangerous, just because of the way I appear. And that’s a heavy burden,” says lawyer and racial justice advocate Bryan Stevenson.

“I can tell you, because I’m getting older, that when you’re constantly navigating these presumptions of dangerousness and guilt, it’s exhausting.”

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

People has a wonderful story about my friendship with @SusanSarandon through the decades, and our collaboration all the way from Dead Man Walking to Rebel Nun. Please share! https://t.co/OT6Vxcacpu

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1961, a Virginia judge upheld racial segregation in courtrooms, dismissing as “totally without merit” the allegation that the practice of segregation was degrading. https://t.co/7s3Lx38Cj9

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1921, the Chicago Real Estate Board vowed to maintain residential segregation and voted to expel any member who sold property to Black people where white people lived. https://t.co/HuqicYRbnu

[Pat Magness @PatMagness]

@AmandaMGoetz Children to college/adulthood