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Until we meet again, Alf 💜
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa race massacre, has released her memoir "Don't Let Them Bury My Story”
Today marks 102 years since a white mob burned down Tulsa’s Black Wall Street
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On this day, May 31st, in 1921, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma witnessed one of the most horrific racial atrocities in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre.
**A THREAD
The lady circled in the photo was Lucy Higgs Nichols. She was born into slavery in Tennessee, but during the Civil War she managed to escape and found her way to 23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment which was encamped nearby.
She stayed with the regiment and worked as a nurse throughout the war.
After the war, she moved north with the regiment and settled in Indiana, where she found work with some of the veterans of the 23rd.
She applied for a pension after Congress passed the Army Nurses Pension Act of 1892 which allowed Civil War nurses to draw pensions for their service.
The War Department had no record of her, so her pension was denied. Fifty-five surviving veterans of the 23rd petitioned Congress for the pension they felt she had rightfully earned, and it was granted.
The photograph shows Nichols and other veterans of the Indiana regiment at a reunion in 1898. Beloved by the troops who referred to her as “Aunt Lucy,” Nichols was the only woman to receive an honorary induction into the Grand Army of the Republic, and she was buried in an unmarked grave in New Albany with full military honors in 1915.
Never forget when Kendrick Lamar’s 2016 Grammy’s performance was so crazy that they made it near impossible to find on the internet https://t.co/gsVcqbjGvo
Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year.
"That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty," the author says. https://t.co/YU9SfgcKdi
A sitting US senator is celebrating a child wearing a shirt called “guns and 69,” which features sexually explicit and misogynistic messaging, desecrates the flag, and glorifies a weapon used to murder children and educators in American schools.
This culture is killing us.
1st game of 2023 is in the book.
East Side - 7
Southport - 2
Huge Thank You to @Roncalli_Lax staff for hosting our game. We're incredibly grateful for the hospitality on such short notice.
Next up:
3/15, 6p: @ Park Tudor HS
3/18, 4p: vs South Bend LC
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This is why they don’t want to teach our history! But this needs to be taught so it never happens again! Read this!They described us like animals! But we suppose to forget that shit happen. Your kids don’t have to be like those in the past! They can be better! they need to know!