Today in #Connecticut History, September 12: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Teenage Summer in Simsbury

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#20thcentury #africanamericanhistory #agriculture #civilrights #connecticuthistory #jimcrow #laborhistory #martinlutherkingjr #mlk #segregation #september #simsbury #socialmovements #tobacco #work

Today in Labor History September 10, 1962: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Civil Rights Leader, James Meredith, could be admitted to the University of Mississippi. White rioters burned cars, pelted federal agents and soldiers with rocks, bricks and shot at them. 31,000 soldiers were sent to quell the violence, the largest ever use of the Insurrection Act of 1807. Two people died. Meredith was harassed throughout his time at the university. He went on to organize the March against Fear from Memphis to Jackson. He also was active in the Voting Rights movement. He went on to become an adviser to the right-wing, segregationist Senator Jesse Helms.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #CivilRights #racism #JimCrow #segregation #JamesMeredith #OleMiss #Riot #SCOTUS

Today in Labor History September 10, 1963: 20 black children were integrated into Birmingham schools in spite of opposition by the city. Martin Luther King, James Bevel & Fred Shuttlesworth led the campaign of nonviolent direct action to integrate Birmingham, Alabama, one of the most segregated cities in the nation. Over a thousand were arrested during the campaign. Bull Connors ordered the use of high-pressure hoses and attack dogs on juvenile protesters. Racists bombed the Gaston Motel, in a failed attempt to assassinate King.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #CivilRights #nonviolence #CivilDisobedience #MartinLutherKing #alabama #bombing #racsim #JimCrow

Today in Labor History September 4, 1957: Nine African American students tried to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Governor Orval Faubus ordered the National Guard to block them. The students were ultimately admitted. However, they were abused and harassed throughout the year. One girl had acid thrown in her eyes. One of the girls was suspended, and later expelled, for having the audacity to defend herself against the attacks.

Here is footage of the Civil Rights movement, accompanied by Charles Mingus’s “Fables of Faubus.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT2-iobVcdw

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #Mingus #CivilRights #arkansas #students #school #integration #JimCrow

Today in Labor History August 28, 1955: Teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered on this day in Money, Mississippi, for speaking "inappropriately" to a white woman. The brutality of the murder and the lack of justice for his family helped to mobilize opposition to segregation in America. An all-white jury acquitted Till’s killers, Roy Bryant and his half-brother J. W. Milam. The next year, both men publicly admitted in an interview with Look magazine that they had tortured and murdered the boy. The magazine paid them selling $4,000 (equivalent to $43,000 in 2022) for the story. Between 1876 and 1930, over 500 African Americans were lynched in Mississippi, alone, and over 3,000 across the South. A memorial marker for Emmett Till, erected in 2006, was defaced with "KKK", and then completely covered with black paint. 8 more markers were erected at sites associated with Till's lynching in 2007. Some of these were vandalized, too. One of the signs received over 100 bullet holes. In 2018, three University of Mississippi students were suspended from their fraternity after posting to Instagram a photo of them posing in front of the bullet-riddled marker, with guns.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #racism #lynching #Kkk #EmmettTill #mississippi #JimCrow #torture #BlackMastadon

Today in Labor History August 18, 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. This guaranteed women's right to vote. Congress first introduced a women's suffrage amendment in 1878. Before 1776, women were allowed to vote in several of the colonies, but by 1807 all the state constitutions had denied them this right. In 1848, the Seneca Falls convention adopted the Declaration of Sentiments, calling for equality between the sexes and the right to vote. The Nineteenth Amendment enfranchised 26 million American women just before the 1920 U.S. presidential election. Newly enfranchised women prioritized a reform agenda, including the Sheppard–Towner Maternity and Infancy Protection Act of 1921, which expanded maternity care during the 1920s. This was the first federal social security law and was huge until Congress let it lapse in 1929.

In 1920, only 36% of eligible women voted (compared with 68% of men). This was due to barriers like literacy tests, long residency requirements, and poll taxes. By 1960, women were voting in greater numbers than men. However, 3 million women south of the Mason–Dixon line remained disfranchised. Election officials regularly utilized fraud, intimidation, poll taxes, and state violence to block their access to the polls. In 1926, officials in Birmingham, Alabama beat African American women who were trying to register to vote. These practices continued until the 24th Amendment, in 1962, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. And they continue today with a host of new voting restrictions being imposed in mostly Republican states.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #suffrage #Vote #sexism #feminism #racism #JimCrow #VotingRights

This is huge.

"United States 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decided Friday, ... that the prohibition constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, violating the Eighth Amendment."

#Mississippi
#JimCrow
#Voting
#Disenfranchisement

https://www.al.com/reckon/2023/08/mississippi-overturns-jim-crow-era-law-that-banned-people-convicted-of-a-felony-from-voting.html

Just another day in #Mississippi...

#racism #policebrutality #KKKops #JimCrow

https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-deputies-guilty-pleas-civil-rights-e4937b4cd1d2ed2388b2fd1c3aeefcb9

Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era voting law struck down by federal appeals court

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/04/mississippis-jim-crow-era-voting-law-appeals-court

2-1 ruling on policy that revoked voting rights for certain people with felony convictions is surprise victory from conservative court.

#votersuppression #voterrights #statism #jimcrow #law #struckdown

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Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban for people convicted of certain crimes, a relic of the State’s 1890 Jim Crow laws, violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled Friday morning.

U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James L. Dennis, writing for a 2-1 majority of a three-judge panel, said in the ruling this morning that “Plaintiffs are entitled to prevail on their claim that, as applied to their class, disenfranchisement for life under Section 241 is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment.”
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https://www.mississippifreepress.org/35243/mississippis-lifetime-felony-voting-ban-unconstitutional-appeals-court-rules

#Mississippi #JimCrow #OneStepForward #AirplaneOrTimeMachine

Henry Wallace was FDR's Vice-President, but was replaced, during FDR's last sickness by Harry Truman.
https://credo.library.umass.edu/cgi-bin/pdf.cgi?id=scua:mums312-b121-i318

#uspolitics #jimcrow #racism

Congressional Black Caucus Chair: 'Black people are under attack' . #racism #history #education #USPolitics #USPoli #USPol #authoritarianism #JimCrow https://youtu.be/YbBH7gpn448

Here's a map of known "sundown towns" throughout the U.S. I assumed they were exclusively a Southern phenomenon but I was wrong; I live within a walking distance of one such former sundown town.

https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/using-the-sundown-towns-database/state-map/

#jimcrow #whitesupremacy #racism #racialsegregation #racialjustice #sundowntown

#JimCrow in the Driver’s Seat

https://barnraisingmedia.com/rural-mississippi-voting-cars-transportation-difficult-suppression/
#Rural #Mississippians without cars face #voting hurdles

'Separate but equal' is just #JimCrow

Swimming Authorities Create Open Category For #Transgender Athletes | HuffPost Sports

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-swm-transgender-event_n_64c00b31e4b053a700931bb2

@anirvan #jimcrow is alive and well in 2023. #unbeforkinglievable

@UpstartCrow #JimCrow…alive and well.

The Writers Who Went Undercover To Show America Its Ugly Side

>...after World War II, the battle against #fascism spread to an unanticipated front line: the national conscience [..] The warriors [..] many of them Black and Jewish veterans of combat abroad, insisted that America confront and rectify its homegrown racial hierarchy and religious intolerance. “Double V” was the slogan [..] meaning victory over Hitler abroad and over Jim Crow at home https://portside.org/2023-07-13/writers-who-went-undercover-show-america-its-ugly-side #CRT #jimcrow #US #racism

Binary gender is for white people.
#racism #gender #JimCrow

[ Anna Johnson Dupree ]

https://www.curioushistonian.com/anna-johnson-dupree/

Anna Johnson Dupree was an extremely important Houstonian who never received the recognition she deserved during her lifetime.

Unbeknownst to many, the work she and her husband have done for Houston's Black community still resonates today.

#histodons #history #Blackhistory #houstonhistory #blackmastodon #jimcrow #texas #texashistory #houston #civilrights