Monroe & Florence Work Today

From Tuskegee, Mr. & Mrs. Work set down facts ab Black life—when a racist society little cared. Rediscover a of the nation. #PlainTalkHistory

[Monroe & Florence Work Today @MonroeWorkToday]

History is repeating itself.
A critically important thread👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

#JusticeforAhmaudArbery

[The John Mitchell, Jr. Program @JMJP_GMU]

Please show up if you can! To the Wicomico-Somerset Public Lynching Hearing

[Monroe & Florence Work Today @MonroeWorkToday]

Today the Federal gov criminalizes lynching: March 2022. The 1st bill was introduced in 1918.
It took 104 years bc of a Senate maneuver the Founders never contemplated: a minority can talk about nothing, forever, rather than vote. Learn, #EndTheFilibuster:
https://t.co/a3v94jD9jy

[Rich Condon @RichardPCondon]

Her timing is impeccable.

The 15th Amendment to the Constitution, asserting that “The right of citizens of the US to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” was adopted 152 years ago today.

[James “Major” Woodall, Sr. @iMajorWish]

Unfortunately, for what it’s worth, those people who will be harmed by his actions don’t care about how history will view him.

[The John Mitchell, Jr. Program @JMJP_GMU]

TOMORROW at 12pm ET, @Chavis4Change will be discussing his new book, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘦, with @va_ctr_book & @VAHumanities, in partnership with @MDhumanities. Please join us for this virtual event!

Register here: https://t.co/cv3yj87nXb

[Monroe & Florence Work Today @MonroeWorkToday]

@MrPolly8 One point being, perhaps not coincidence that a crop of talented, upwardly mobile youngsters could be taking advantages of their time, when the first state segregation laws started getting passed 🤨

[Monroe & Florence Work Today @MonroeWorkToday]

@MrPolly8 If the cutoff is 1899, then it’s a little too early to talk about Zitkala-Ša entering on the scene. (And Monroe Nathan Work was still finishing graduate school!)

[Mr. Polly’s History @MrPolly8]

I have been using the incredible website by @MonroeWorkToday to discuss lynching in the American south in the late 19th and early 20th century. I also am privileged to introduce my students to an American hero Ida B. Wells. @MichelleDuster I am excited to start reading your book

[Monroe & Florence Work Today @MonroeWorkToday]

In short, this has the “missing link” from violent anti-Blackness to white prosperity. 😮

[Monroe & Florence Work Today @MonroeWorkToday]

This book may shake the ground of lynching studies, bc @chavis4change here has *receipts*. This is not “at the hands of persons unknown,” this unburies witnesses who placed prominent individuals in a plan to murder a 23-year-young Black man in 1931 MD.

[Dr. Charles L. Chavis, Jr. @Chavis4Change]

Out of the archive, racist plans are laid bare. Facts which have waited 90 years, witnesses who named the lynchers. Today @Chavis4Change brings this evidence to light. ON SALE NOW, The Silent Shore is available wherever you buy books! or find it at https://t.co/ua4Za0TNvs #book

[Monroe & Florence Work Today @MonroeWorkToday]

It feels promising, if it becomes less exceedingly rare, that lynchers face the full force of the laws of their own making—cracks in a wall of white impunity that has so long made a mockery of a ‘justice’ system
https://t.co/gvqqzEEQH5

[Dr. Charles L. Chavis, Jr. @Chavis4Change]

In 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙚, @Chavis4Change illustrates how white Marylanders stole a life, dispossessed a community, and evaded scrutiny. Black Marylanders mourned and organized in the aftermath.

Get your copy for 1/11/22! https://t.co/ua4Za0TNvs

[Dr. Charles L. Chavis, Jr. @Chavis4Change]

Maryland is the first state to formally reckon with its history of lynching and racial violence https://t.co/XNlPM99hoI

[Dr. Charles L. Chavis, Jr. @Chavis4Change]

Tomorrow we commemorate and honor 23 year old Matthew Williams, an innocent life stolen through a lynching in Salisbury, Maryland 90 years ago.  Join us to watch the world premiere.

Go to https://t.co/FkzO5cfJX5 to register to join for Saturday

[James “Major” Woodall, Sr. @iMajorWish]

We started 2yrs ago fighting for #AhmaudArbery. Ways to go for justice but pause right now in moment of relief. Sending ❤️ to Wanda Cooper-Jones, Marcus Arbery and all of Brunswick who fought like hell for weeks and months on end with NO support.

Now we turn #BeyondTheVerdict.

[Monroe & Florence Work Today @MonroeWorkToday]

Manifest the day in which we root out *all* the closet white supremacists from participating in our society. #JusticeForAhmaud

[James “Major” Woodall, Sr. @iMajorWish]

BREAKING: All three defendants have been convicted in the murder of #AhmaudArbery.

[Blair LM Kelley, PhD @profblmkelley]

The first person I thought about when I saw the Lee statue lifted into the air today in Richmond was John Mitchell, Jr. who bravely led protests against the statue in 1890 and predicted that it would “result in handing down to generations unborn a legacy of treason and blood.”

[Edward T. O'Donnell inthepastlane.bsky.social @InThePastLane]

@ndrew_lawrence another day, another nomination

[James “Major” Woodall, Sr. @iMajorWish]

BREAKING: @TheJusticeDept announces that the three murderers of Ahmaud Arbery have been indicted on federal hate crime charges. #GaPol