For #BlackHistoryMonth, a Wikipedia article I started a while ago on The Bog, a 19th-century Charlottetown neighbourhood of Black enslaved persons, and later a mixed-race slum. The Bog was gentrified (read: bulldozed) in the early 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bog,_Charlottetown

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An incredible and important story.
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https://youtu.be/oPk2F3rxetk

From African & Black History on Twitter
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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 [ condensed from Twitter ]

In Illinois, where Fred Hampton was born, the police constantly harassed black people. Access to social goods too was made difficult, if not curtailed, in the areas with heavy black populations.

The party, a creation of Huey Newton and fellow student Bobby Seale, insisted on black nationalist response to racial discrimination. The party’s Illinois chapter was opened in 1967 and Hampton joined in 1968, aged just 20.

when Stokely Carmichael’s Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) split from the Panthers in 1969, Hampton headed the Illinois chapter of the Panthers.

Then a petty criminal, O’Neal was coerced by the FBI into helping them silence Hampton and the Black Panther Party. And he did just that when he infiltrated the party and provided the FBI with a floor plan of the Chicago apartment where Hampton was assassinated in 1969.

Find the original at
https://twitter.com/AfricanArchives/status/1599461127653580800?t=p4DXJhSvu-hviTY8doN2Lw&s=19

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