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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

This horrendous act was later characterized in sheet music, post Cards and figurines.

Years later, a candy Manufacturer of black licorice drops created a distasteful advertisement that featured a hungry looking alligator leering at a black baby.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Breaking News: A Shelby County commissioner says the Republican state government is now threatening to pull funding for Memphis schools and infrastructure projects if they vote to re-appoint Rep. Justin Pearson to his democratically-elected seat. https://t.co/YgH3musZR3

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

When politicians keep kids from learning about slavery out of a fear of making White students feel "guilty," they prevent kids from being inspired by White abolitionists like Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, the most radical of the “Radical Republicans,” born #OTD in 1792. A 🧵1/

[Jamaal Bowman @RepBowman]

Everyone needs to be paying attention to what's happening in Tennessee 🚨

3 lawmakers are about to be illegally ousted for joining the 10,000 kids protesting at the state capitol.

Stop following Trump's location and focus on protecting our democracy from fascism everywhere.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

"I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake." —Leopold II of Belgium

Before Hitler killed 6 million Jews.…. Leopold Il of Belgium killed over 10 million Africans in Congo and amputated the arms of countless others.

A THREAD

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Republicans have banned:

- CRT
- Books
- Abortions
- Saying GAY
- Black History
- Contraceptives
- Voting drop boxes
- Drag queen readings
- Michelangelo's David
- Tampons for students (Idaho)

US: What about assault weapons?
THEM: Nah, bans don't work.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

If a 6-year-old girl like Ruby Bridges was old enough to endure the hatred and vitriol she was exposed to just to go to school, 2nd graders in Florida should be old enough to learn about her courage.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

One in every four cowboys was believed to be a Black man released from slavery despite the stories told in popular books and movies although the most famous cowboys of the old west were white.

THREAD

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The Human Zoo died out after WW II. Oddly it was Hitler who first banned them. The last was in Belgium in 1958.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1916, Ota Benga, an African native who suffered inhumane treatment by being kept in a zoo, committed suicide.

He had been kidnapped in 1904 from Congo, and taken to America and exhibited at the Bronx Zoo with monkeys.

A THREAD!

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

ICYMI — Jessa Duggar of the famously anti-abortion Duggar family had an abortion due to “risks of complications”, which is now ILLEGAL IN TENNESSEE thanks to folks like her. #ForcedBirthState #NoExceptions
https://t.co/CIw1eqKBa9

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

According to a reporter’s account which was not added to the newspaper details about his capture and death, Frank was castrated and made to eat parts of his manhood before he was finally led to an oak tree to be hanged.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Did you know the author of 'The Three Musketeers', 'The Count of Monte Cristo' & 'The Iron Mask' was a black writer called Alexander Dumas. #BlackHistoryMonth

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

More than 8000 post black women in Mississippi and S. Carolina were given involuntary hysterectomies (removal of uterus) between 1920s and 80s when they went to see white doctors for other complaints.

These came to be known as 'Mississippi Appendectomies'

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

J. Marion Sims "the father of modern gynecology" purchased Black women slaves and used them as guinea pigs for his untested surgical experiments.

He repeatedly performed genital surgery on Black women WITHOUT ANESTHESIA because according to him, "Black women don't feel pain."

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On February 12th 1946, Isaac Woodard, WW2 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 #BlackHistoryMonth 

THREAD!

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Your reminder for when Republicans inevitably blame “mental health” for the shooting at Michigan State:

[Prof KKC @KaranjaKeita]

#TheyFearThoseWith

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

So reporters.. for many people "woke" means Black people. Or more likely--a racist slur. So maybe do a better job in interviews when people talk about 'wokeness' mmkay?