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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1969, activist and chairman of the Black Panther Party Fred Hampton, was assassinated by Chicago police and the FBI at just 21 years old.

William O'Neal, an FBI informant, infiltrated the Black Panthers and set up Fred Hampton for $300.

A THREAD

[Yvette Carnell 🇺🇸 @BreakingBrown]

I haven’t read this article & I doubt that I’m in agreement w/it….. but… why they do BLM ✊🏾 like that?!!? 😫😂😂

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Congo is getting wipe out in their millions, there is a massacre happening in Congo. #Africa

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Rosa Ingram and her teen sons were sentenced to death in 1948 after they murdered a white neighbor who attempted to sexually assault their mother.

Thanks to civil rights activists the story gained national press. They were later released on parole for being "model prisoners."

—In 1948 Rosa Lee Ingram, a sharecropper and widowed Mother of four boys, was the center of one of the most-explosive capital punishment cases in history. In 1948 in a one-day trial, Ingram and two of her teenage boys were sentenced to die by electric chair, after an altercation with a White landowner in the state of Georgia.

On November 4, 1947, the landowner reportedly confronted Ingram and three of her sons over livestock entering his land near the small town of Ellaville. John Stratford was armed with a shotgun and pocket knife when he went to have his word with Ingram. Three of Ingram’s boys overheard their mother yelling then rushed over to her armed with farm instruments. Later, the 64-year-old man was found dead by way of blows to the head according to the investigation.

In several accounts and most notably in author Janus Adams‘ “Sister Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African-American Women’s History,” it was said that Stratford struck Ingram in the head with the butt of his rifle after threatening to shoot her mules that allegedly invaded his cornfield. Other historical accounts state that according to later testimony, though, Stratford threatened Ingram with sexual assault before striking her.

Either way, Ingram and her sons, Wallace, 16, and Sammy, 14, were all convicted by an all-White jury to death; Charles, 17, was at the scene but not charged due to lack of evidence.

Although there was an investigation at the scene of the murder, it has been suggested that many who responded to the incident were not officially mandated to do so. As a result, civil rights activists from NAACP branches around the nation leaped in to action to assist Ingram and her boys.

Court-appointed White lawyer S. Hawkins Dykes was aided by the the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) and their fund-raising efforts. Although this move caused some tension with the NAACP, Ingram and her sons were able to get an appeal and their sentences were reduced to life in prison.

National Committee to Free the Ingram Family, led by Mary Church Terrell, was instrumental in continuing to fight on behalf of the Ingram family and worked alongside the CRC and NAACP to ensure their freedom. Working across class and color lines, the case was a rallying cry for women activists and attracted the attention of the media in the North.

These organizations worked tirelessly to keep Ingram’s case alive in the minds of the public, even appealing to President Harry Truman to intervene at one point.

Finally in 1959, the Ingrams were granted parole and released.
The case placed a highlight on the racist and divisive Jim Crow laws of the South and also galvanized African-American women to participate in civil rights activism.

Ms. Ingram lived in Atlanta from the time of her release in prison until her passing in 1980.

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[DAP/ADOS TRIBE🇺🇸 @Black_Action]

“The new report, ‘Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans,’ concludes that, during the same period, ‘no one was more at risk of experiencing violence and targeted racial terror than black veterans.’”

November 27, 2016
#VeteransDay2023
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[Yvette Carnell 🇺🇸 @BreakingBrown]

Whoopi gets paid to play the ‘cranky sellout’ on The View.

I can’t think of anything lazier than deciding against actually working & opting instead to tap dance everyday for the housewives of America .

It’s easy money though. The easiest money a Negro can make in America

[DAP/ADOS TRIBE🇺🇸 @Black_Action]

Whatever film he’s talking about better not be as ahistorical as this post. 🤔

[MoorInfo @MoorInformation]

November 11, 1831 — Christian freedom fighter Nat Turner was executed on this day for leading a slave rebellion in Virginia.

[JAH LOVE YOU SHALOM RASTAFARAI H.I.M 💚💛❤️ @axpap69]

The best JAH Bless ❤️💛💚

[Mzilikazi wa Afrika @IamMzilikazi]

BOMBA: Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate #CelebrateAfrika 25

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

Welcome to Afro Colombian culture. The African DNA in the diaspora.

[African @ali_naka]

"If the owners of the natural resources go around begging, then you should know there's something wrong with their minds”

President Paul Kagame

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Isaac Woodard, WWII veteran, hours after being honorably discharged, was attacked by South Carolina police while still in uniform when taking the bus home & left permanently BLIND

The officers were acquitted by an all white jury #VeteransDay2023 

A THREAD!

[MarcelForCongress @Marcel4Congress]

Two things: First, HATS OFF to Katt Williams for being ON CODE. Our message is spreading and WINNING!

Secondly, are any of us trying to connect with Katt Williams #reparations? We need to be.

[TheCompany™️©️ @The_Real_Yay]

#JimCrow 2.0 They got the right to deny people based on race. 😑🤧

[Tamorah Shareef Muhammad @ModestyQueen19]

This is for those who have a problem with the Nation of Islam!!

If you are not out here doing half the work the Nation is doing just be quiet

[WE HAVE NO FRIENDS/BY ANY MEME NECESSARY @CLG98264897]

2019

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1831, Freedom fighter Nat Turner was executed for leading a slave rebellion in VA.

He started what is considered the most deadly slave revolt in the history o the United States , the Nat Turner Rebellion, which sparked the events leading to civil war.

A THREAD!

[African Revolt @Africarevolt]

Those who have chained humanity for centuries cannot teach humanity anything ~ Fred M’membe

In photo 📸 Patrice Lumumba In the hands of Belgium security agents and CIA

"Africa and the Black world are yet to recover from Sankara’s assassination. Just as we have yet to recover from the loss of Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Malcolm X, Eduardo Mondlane, Amilcar Cabral, Steve Biko, Samora Machel, and John Garang, to name only a few.The White-Supremacist/Racist and its Dumb-Negro/ Brainwashed Afropean cronies used the same methods to eliminate each of these great pan-Africanists.
Every Leaders Who Has Stood Up For Africa's Right To Economic Self-determination Has Been Eliminated .
Almost every single leader who has stood up for Africa's right to economic self-determination has been eliminated -- either physically or politically!
The question still being asked by Africans, decades after they gained a nominal political independence, is: 'How long shall they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?'

This question was memorably put forward by the iconic Bob Marley so many years ago, but our prophets continue to be killed.

One by one, our most steadfast leaders have been eliminated, to the point where Africa is hard-pressed to point out more than three people who are advancing the continental agenda for economic freedom.

Almost every single leader who has stood up for Africa's right to economic self-determination has been eliminated – either physically or politically.

It started with the very first successful anti-colonial movement in Ghana where Kwame Nkrumah was the victim of a concerted propaganda campaign that saw him pushed out of power through a coup.

Today, the average Ghanaian admits that an error was made in not recognizing Nkrumah's value, and elections in that country are now premised on being pro-Nkrumah or not. Patrice Lumumba's story is one of the saddest in Africa's quest for economic freedom, and his brutal murder still rankles today.
The same happened to Thomas Isdore Sankara, Steve Biko and many others who stood up for African dignity.
And it was not just in Africa.
Malcolm X died young because of what he believed was the rightful place of the black person in the United States of America – 'the land of the free'.
Fortunately, while these icons may have been physically and/or politically eliminated, their ideas live on.
The problem is: how many in Africa and the African Diaspora have the courage to stand up and take these ideas forward? Perhaps a little relook at some of these icons will re-energize the struggle to reclaim our dignity as a people.
Patrice Lumumba
In October of 1960 Lumumba said, 'Dead, living, free, or in prison on the orders of the colonialists, it is not I who counts.'

'It is the Congo, it is our people for whom independence has been transformed into a cage where we are regarded from the outside.'

'History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that Brussels, Paris, Washington, or the United Nations will teach, but that which they will teach in the countries emancipated from colonialism and its puppets... a history of glory and dignity.'

His faithfulness to the idea of a united Congo was as real a threat then as it is today.

A solid Congo state, with its great natural and human resources, would be a global economic power that the West would not take as lightly as they do the fractured state that exists at present.
Perhaps Lumumba's biggest mistake was a lack of tact in exposing his grand plans for his country.

It was probably in that memorable Independence Day speech in which he challenged the core of imperialism that he sealed his fate and the decision was made to murder him.

After all, the former colonial powers have always been content to let Africa hold political power at home but will not brook any interference in how the economy is run and resources are allocated.