This is an excellent program, and this was an excellent experience.

https://www.post-gazette.com/life/goodness/2023/07/19/classrooms-without-borders-civil-rights-movement-american-history-black-history-selma-montgomery-freedom-riders-bloody-sunday-obama-academy-winchester-thurston/stories/202307110094

#blackmastodon #freedomRiders #bloodySunday #classroomsWithoutBorders #AmericanHistory # civil-rights

Today in Labor History July 10, 1921: Bloody Sunday: Seventeen people died and 200 houses were destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The violence erupted the day before the beginning of a truce that was supposed to end the Irish War of Independence. As the truce approached, police launched a raid against republicans. However, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambushed them, killing an officer. In retaliation, Protestant loyalists attacked Catholic enclaves in west Belfast. As a result, Protestants and Catholics paramilitaries battled each other in the streets. There were also gun battles between Republicans and the police. And police also fired indiscriminately at Catholic civilians. Belfast saw almost 500 people killed from 1920–22 in political and sectarian violence related to the Irish War of Independence.

The Irish War of Independence has been portrayed in the play “The Shadow of a Gunman,” by Seán O'Casey, the 1929 novel, “The Last September,” by Elizabeth Bowen, the 1931 short story, “Guests of the Nation,” by Frank O'Connor and the more recent novels: “Troubles,” by J. G. Farrell (1970), “The Old Jest,” (1979) by Jennifer Johnston, and “The Soldier's Song,” (2010) by Alan Monaghan.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #irish #independence #Revolutionary #belfast #BloodySunday #ireland #republican #catholic #protestant #civilians

At least 100 people were wounded. About 200 houses were destroyed or badly damaged, most of them Catholic homes, leaving 1,000 people homeless. 2/2

#Ireland #IrishHistory #BloodySunday #1921 #Belfast #IRA #OnThisDay

On 10 July 1921 Bloody Sunday broke out in Belfast. The violence erupted one day before a truce began in the Irish War of Independence, which ended the war in most of Ireland. With the truce nearing, police launched a raid against republicans, but were ambushed by the IRA and a British officer was killed. 1/2

#Ireland #IrishHistory #BloodySunday #1921 #Belfast #IRA #OnThisDay

Today in Labor History June 19, 1938: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Vancouver cops attacked strikers with tear gas and clubs on Bloody Sunday. The strikers were primarily unemployed men, affiliated with the Communist Party. They had been on strike for months and had occupied hotels, the Vancouver art gallery and post office.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #GeneralStrike #vancouver #BloodySunday #canada #communism #police #PoliceBrutality

Today in Labor History May 20, 1938: 500 unemployed workers began a sit-down strike in the Hotel Georgia, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Unemployed men had been drifting to British Columbia during the Depression because of the milder climate and relatively better pay in the forestry camps. In early ’38, the government had cut grants to the provinces. As a result, many of the relief camps shut down and jobs dried up. In response, protesters occupied the Hotel George, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the main post office beginning on May 20. They were led by communist organizers. The owner of the hotel refused to call the cops, fearing major property damage in the melee that would ensue. So, he bribed the men to leave. However, those in the post office and art gallery remained for weeks.

The conflict culminated on Bloody Sunday (June 19), when undercover Mounties brutally beat strikers in their attempt to evict them. 42 people were hospitalized, five of whom were cops. One striker lost an eye. Those who evaded arrest, along with onlookers and supporters on the outside, then marched to the East End, smashing windows. They caused $35,000 damage.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #SitDownStrike #strike #unemployment #poverty #starvation #vancouver #BloodySunday #communism #depression #PoliceBrutality #police #acab

@Jhughes1 oh really? I didn't know about that but I'll check it out. I watched #Belfast and #BloodySunday recently and they were great movies about the troubles

https://youtu.be/DBCTUmTf4GE
#Blackhistory #BloodySunday

Another excerpt from Dr. King's eulogy for James Reeb in Selma, Alabama, in March 1965, as cited by Pierce:

#CivilRights #BloodySunday #JamesReeb #Selma

/4

Prior to his murder, the national press tended to ignore violence being visited by white men on black civil rights marchers, including the murder of Jimmy Lee Jackson in Marion, Alabama, in February 1965.

Charles Pierce says that this is the real history of our nation that some people want to suppress, to keep children from learning — the ongoing struggle for justice that forms the core narrative of an always unfinished American democracy.

#CivilRights #BloodySunday #JamesReeb #Selma

/2

Yesterday, Charles Pierce memorialized James Reeb, a Unitarian minister from Boston who died on 11 March 1965 after having been savagely beaten by white men in Selma, Alabama, after he and two other Unitarian ministers from Boston took part in the Selma march for voting rights.

Reeb was 38 years old. He left a young widow and four young children.

#CivilRights #BloodySunday #JamesReeb #Selma

/1

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43273867/republicans-history-forgetting/

"Civil rights protesters beaten in “Bloody Sunday” attack"

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bloody-sunday-civil-rights-protesters-beaten-selma

#BloodySunday
#JohnLewis

Remembering #BloodySunday in Selma:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/journey-selma-july-4th-2021-michael-kohlman/

3/7/1965-525 civil rights advocates began a 54-mile march on a Sunday morning from Selma, AL, to the capital Montgomery, to promote voting rights for blacks. Just after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, the marchers were attacked in what became known as Bloody Sunday.

#BloodySunday

1/3

Today in Labor History March 7, 1965: “Bloody Sunday" occurred in Selma, Alabama, with state troopers attacking civil rights marchers. People had been protesting the disenfranchisement of African American voters. From January-February, 1965, the police arrested over 3,000 protesters. On February 26, the police murdered activist and deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson. In response, organizers planned a march from Selma to Montgomery.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #selma #BloodySunday #CivilRights #PoliceBrutality #police #racism #murder

Today is the anniversary of #BloodySunday in the #Philippines.

#impunity

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1717796/murder-raps-vs-17-cops-on-bloody-sunday-dismissed

"How Selma's 'Bloody Sunday' Became a Turning Point in the Civil Rights Movement"

https://www.history.com/news/selma-bloody-sunday-attack-civil-rights-movement

#BloodySunday #Selma #JohnLewis

"The Week Ahead"

#JohnLewis #Selma #BloodySunday #NeverForget #VotingRights

"The Week Ahead"

by @JoyceWhiteVance

https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/the-week-ahead-06b?r=yteu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

@JoyceVance

What really happened in #Selma

"In the 1960s, despite the fact Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, #Alabama, the city’s voting rolls were 99% white. So, in 1963, local Black organizers launched a voter registration drive.

It was hard going. White Selma residents had no intention of permitting their Black neighbors to have a say in their government."

#bloodysunday #blm #HeatherCoxRichardson #vote #votingrights
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-5-2023-sunday

Reflecting on Selma’s ‘Bloody Sunday’ 58 years later

https://youtu.be/p13yuKwGb7o

#news #politics #uspolitics #history #selma #bloodysunday #votingrights