Posts Tagged ‘Civil Rights’
Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619-2019 Contents
Dedicated to African Americans, Freedmen and slave Who stood by the Union in her time of trial And to their descendants Who kept the faith Despite segregation and hate Chapter One Racism and White Supremacy: America’s “Original Sin?” (25 pages) Chapter Two Slavery: America’s “Peculiar Institution” …
Read MoreWho and What was Jim Crow?
The short answer is that no one knows how the name originated. What is known is that in 1832 an entertainer born in Manhattan, Thomas Dartmouth “Big Daddy” Rice, wrote a song and dance he called “Jim Crow.” Rice applied blackface makeup and imitated slave dialect for his performances, birthing a type of minstrel show…
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