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On this date in 1911, Lawrence Nelson and his mother Laura Nelson, were lynched and hanged from the Old Schoolton Bridge in Oklahoma. There were picnics and postcards were sold to celebrate. #lauranelson #lawrencenelson #strangefruit #lynchings #blackhidstory #blackhistoryeveryday #thingstheydontteachyou #makeamericagreatagain #facebookbannedmeforthis https://www.instagram.com/p/CAm9s_Hpasb/?igshid=d8kdfq7t03dl

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To be liberated, African people must know the nature of European thought and behavior in order to understand the effect that Europe has had on our ability to think victoriously. We must separate our thought from European thought, so as to visualize a future that is not dominated by Europe. - Marimba Ani #blackwombmanwednesday #marimbani #yurugu #africanliberation #africancentered #afrikanworldbooks #panafricanism #blackwombman #africanwoman #africanhistory #blackhistoryeveryday #africaneducation #blackeducation #blackliberation #africanhidstory #blackhidstory

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On this date, Byron de la Beckwith was convicted of murdering Medgar Evers ##medgarevers #killedforspeakingup #murderracism #civilrights #byrondelabeckwith #blackhidstory #blackhistory #blacklivesmatter #makebeingblackinamericalegal #blackhistoryeveryday https://www.instagram.com/p/B8MUuNzllgv/?igshid=1e5l02c7q03lj

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March 5, 1945: Lena Baker, a maid, was executed for murder by the State of Georgia in 1945 for killing her employer, Ernest Knight, in 1944. At her trial she said that he had imprisoned and threatened to shoot her should she try to leave. She took his gun and shot him. Baker was the only woman to be executed by electrocution in Georgia. On entering the execution chamber, Baker sat in the electric chair and said: "What I done, I did in self-defense, or I would have been killed myself. Where I was I could not overcome it. God has forgiven me. I have nothing against anyone. I picked cotton for Mr. Pritchett, and he has been good to me. I am ready to go. I am one in the number. I am ready to meet my God. I have a very strong conscience." In 2005 Baker was granted a full and unconditional pardon by the State of Georgia, 60 years after her execution. The movie The Lena Baker Story (2008) is about her life. #lenabaker #makebeingblackinamericalegal #standyourground #themorethingschange #americatheugly #blackhidstory #thingstheydontteachyou https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Wg9xtHgJ0/?igshid=186fw3ivxp460

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Happy birthday to the great abolitionist, John Brown. He believed that armed resistance was the only way to abolish slavery. Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a way to try to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. #johnbrown #slaverevolt #harpersferry #abolitionist #blackhistory #americanhistory #thingstheydontteachyou #freedomordeath #blackhidstory #freedomfoghters https://www.instagram.com/p/BijdakvBih8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uyy6nglj9vgm

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Paddyrollers began in 1704 in South Carolina. The Paddyrollers job was to ride around slave plantations stopping all slaves they encountered and making them prove that they were engaged in lawful activities. Paddyrollers required Blacks to produce a pass, which stated their owner's name as well as where and when they were allowed to be away from the plantation and for how long…SOUND FAMILIAR. Paddyrollers would break up large gatherings and assemblies of Blacks, enter without warrant the plantation grounds to search the slave quarters and inspect slave homes… DAMN THIS SOUNDS SO FAMILIAR… looking for stolen goods, missing slaves who had turned runaway and weapons that could be used in an revolt. They also looked for evidence of books, papers, and pens because remember learning to read and write was forbidden for Black folks on the plantation. I WASN’T BORN A SLAVE BUT I’VE BEEN FORCED TO PRODUCE MY PASS…I MEAN ID AND ASKED WHERE I’M GOING, SEARCHED FOR WEAPONS AND TOLD WE HAVE TO MOVE OFF THE BLOCK SEVERAL TIMES. DAMN FUNNY HOW TIMES NEVER CHANGE. #paddyrollers #slavecatchers #overseer #officer #moderndayslavepatrol #thingstheydontteachyou #blackhidstory #themorethingschange #throwawaythewholesystem #makebeingblackinamericalegal https://www.instagram.com/p/BcffBtYgomy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1n6efia7rxvi0

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65 years ago on this date in 1955, 14 year old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered because Carolyn Bryant lied and said he whistled at her in Money, Mississippi. Her husband and his friends took Till away and beat and mutilated him before shooting him and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Three days later, Till's body was discovered and retrieved from the river. Mamie Till insisted that there be an open casket at his funeral to show the world how brutal and despicable his murder was. 65 years later, we're still looking for justice for the constant lynchings of people of color. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. #emmittill #mamietill #carolynbryant #blackhistory #blackhidstory #whitelies #thingstheydontteachyou #blacklivesmatter #makebeingblackinamericalegal #legalizeblacklives #blacklivesdidntmatter #sameshitdifferentday #alldaylongthesameoldsong #defundthepolice #alllivesmattermyass #unjustifiedhomicide https://www.instagram.com/p/CEboExrJiv3/?igshid=rtmptfsjycw6

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On this date in 1956, the Clinton 12 became the first African American students to integrate a public school in the south, following the Brown vs Board of Education ruling. Most of us have only heard of the #littlerock9 Things the history books don't tell you. #clinton12 #brownvsboardofeducation #integration #blackhistory #blackhidstory #thingstheydontteachyou #blackhistoryeveryday #treasureourown https://www.instagram.com/p/CEWVNKxpOhM/?igshid=1o3wf6htechph

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On August 16, 1904 In Statesboro, Georgia, Two black men, Will Cato and Paul Reed, were doused with oil and burned alive at the stake after an all-white jury convicted them of murdering a white family of 5. Angry whites from surrounding counties were drawn to the trials by lynching rumors printed in the Savannah Morning News. The rumors and unsubstantiated stories about the murdered Hodges children offering their pennies in return for mercy helped vilify Cato and Reed before the trial even started. About 1,000 men, with guns and whiskey in tow, showed up for the trial. They crowded the Bulloch County Courthouse the day the all-white jury delivered the final guilty verdict and the judge sentenced Cato and Reed to hang. But the verdict didn't satisfy their demands for vengeance. The mob kidnapped Cato and Reed with the help of the Bulloch County Sheriff and his deputies and nooses were placed around the necks of Cato and Reed anf they were tied with ropes and chains to a tree stump, each man was doused in 10 gallons of oil and burned alive before a cheering crowd. Hundreds of citizens brought their children to the scene to gather souvenirs. 2 kids even presented the judge with charred pieces of Cato and Reed's bones the following day. The day after the lynching, blacks were being whipped and beaten by mobs almost nightly. Many whites believed that there was still a ring of black criminals in town and others were just taking their fears and frustrations out on whoever was available, according to the reports. An unidentified black man was found,"shot to pieces," on Lott's bridge in Statesboro and an elderly black man named Albert Roberts was shot and killed in his Statesboro home. Roberts' 17-year-old son was also wounded in the incident, in which a mob selected their house at random and riddled it with bullets. #statesborolynching #willcato #paulreed #lynchings #domesticterrorism #whitesupremacy #blackhidstory #blacklivesmatter #makebeingblackinamericalegal #thingstheydontteachyou #hiddenhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CD9X3xiJJRZ/?igshid=1lt9oxdrvdomd

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On this date in 1908, The Springfield race riot began when two black men were arrested for allegedly assaulting a white man. A lynch mob seeking to take the men and murder them, were upset that the sheriff had transferred them out of the city. The mob went on a murderous spree against the black citizens and destroyed black homes and businesses. #springfieldraceriot #domesticterrorism #hiddenhistory #blackhidstory #thingstheydontteachyou #makebeingblackinamericalegal #blackhistoryeveryday #maga https://www.instagram.com/p/CD3o1qnJjIw/?igshid=nhdf6qb0itae

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On this date 50 years ago, the Marin County courthouse incident occurs. 17 year old Jonathan Jackson attempted to negotiate the freedom of the Soledad Brothers (which included his older brother George) by kidnapping Superior Court judge Harold Haley from the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California. The event received intense media coverage, as did the subsequent manhunt and trial of Angela Davis, an ousted assistant professor from UCLA who owned some of the weapons used in the incident. #marincountycourthouseincident #georgejackson #jonathanjackson #soledadbrothers #angeladavis #blackhistory #blackhidstory #thingstheydontteachyou #blackpanthers #byanymeansnecesaary https://www.instagram.com/p/CDlMA6DpIc5/?igshid=1gc39lqfm1p8m

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On August 7, 1930, the last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurred in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed. They had been arrested the night before, charged with robbing and murdering a white factory worker, Claude Deeter, and raping his white girlfriend, Mary Ball. A large crowd broke into the jail with sledgehammers, beat the two men, and hanged them. When Abram Smith tried to free himself from the noose as his body was hauled up by the rope, he was lowered and then his arms broken to prevent him from trying to free himself again. Police officers in the crowd cooperated in the lynching. A third person, 16-year-old James Cameron, narrowly escaped lynching thanks to an unidentified participant who announced that he had nothing to do with the rape or murder. A studio photographer, Lawrence Beitler, took a photograph of the dead bodies hanging from a tree surrounded by a large crowd; thousands of copies of the photograph were sold. Mary Ball later testified that SHE HAD NOT been raped, contrary to the accusations against the three men. The police accused all three men of murder and rape. James Cameron has stated in interviews that Shipp and Smith had, in fact, shot and killed Claude Deeter, a white man. He has said that he fled when he realized what was going on. In 1988, James Cameron founded and became director of America's Black Holocaust Museum, a museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dedicated to the history of lynching in the United States. #strangefruit #lynchings #thomasshipp #abramsmith #jamescameron #blackholocaustmuseum #blackhistory #blackhidstory #blacklivesmatter #blackhistoryeveryday #thingstheydontteachyou https://www.instagram.com/p/CDlLsKeplbp/?igshid=n611r6or2aua

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Happy bornday to Henrietta Lacks. Born August 1, 1920. An African American woman who was the unwitting donor of cells from her cancerous tumor that was biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. These cells were cultured by George Otto Gey to create the first human immortal cell line, now known as the HeLa cell line, which is still used for medical research. Neither Henrietta Lacks nor her family gave her physicians permission to harvest her cells. At that time, permission was neither required nor customarily sought. A street was named in her honor in Baltimore County, MD #henriettalacks #helacellline #medicalbreakthrough #johnshopkinshospital #experimentingonblackpeople #blacklivesmatter #blackhistory #blackhidstory #thingstheydontteachyou #greatblackwomen https://www.instagram.com/p/CDWD4u8J4eT/?igshid=r3a8jgdze7i9

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On this date in 1910, it is estimated that anywhere from 8-22, and possibly more African-Americans were killed in East Texas by White Supremacists. The tragedy is known as the Slocum Massacre. The massacre has become a forgotten and hushed secret of the state. During the early 20th center, the town of Slocum which was unincorporated was predominantly African-Americans. There were a few Black businesses in the community, and it is believed that that alone was enough to make Whites angry and prone to violence. However, there were other issues that were brewing in the town. Some White townsmen had become angry because Blacks were being put in high position when working for the Whites, and there was talk that the African-Americans planned to riot. The White people became worried and scared and on July 29th there was bloodshed. Hundreds of white citizens from Anderson County stormed through Slocum with shotguns, pistols and whatever they could find to do harm. No one was protected, children as young as 15-years-old was harmed. According to the newspapers printed in 1910, the mobs traveled from house to house, shooting African-Americans who answered their calls and slaughtering more while they tended their fields. There were over two dozen murders that were reported, but many more were suspected. The Sheriff during that time was William H. Black of Anderson County. He was reported saying it was uncertain how many Blacks had been killed, because they were scattered all over the woods and buzzards would likely find the bodies first. #slocummassacre #slocumtexas #domesticterrorism #blackhidstory #hiddenhistory #thingstheydontteachyou #makebeingblackinamericalegal #legalizeblackness #pureevil https://www.instagram.com/p/CDPEMH-Hi-u/?igshid=i3s16vrxpqsr

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The Silent Parade was a silent protest march of between 8,000 and 10,000 African Americans that started at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in New York City on July 28, 1917. The purpose of the parade was to protest murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans. The parade was precipitated by the East St. Louis riots in May and July 1917, when between 40 and 250 Black people were killed by white mobs. Black people returning from World War I, refused to come home after fighting for their country and be treated as 2nd class citizens. #silentparade #civilrights #blackhistoryeveryday #protestmarch #lynching #thingstheydontteachyou #blackhidstory #makebeingblackinamericalegal https://www.instagram.com/p/CDM-BgvJ7s9/?igshid=phky3ob2dgs0

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On this day in 1816, the battle of Fort Negro was fought. Garcia And Fort Negro: After the War of 1812, over three hundred African Americans occupied an abandoned British fort on the banks of the Apalachicola River in what is now Florida. Known as Fort Negro, it was headed by an African American man named Garcia. The heavily armed fort became a symbol of Black independence and a threat to the southern slave system. The United States Government made destruction of the fort one of its highest priorities after the war of 1812. In the summer of 1816, the U.S. Navy and Army under Colonel Clinch surrounded Fort Negro and called on the community to surrender, Garcia refused. On July 27, 1816, an attack was launched, but the heavily fortified garrison repelled it. But a second attack succeeded in hitting the ammunition supply, and the fort exploded. Only sixty four of the three hundred African Americans survived the blast, and only three of the sixty four were uninjured. Garcia, unhurt was executed by firing squad. The remaining survivors were returned to slavery. #fortnegro #blackhistory #littleknownblackhistoryfacts #domesticterrorism #alllivesdidntmatter #beingblackinamericaisacrime #makebeingblackinamericalegal #blacklivesmatter #thingstheydontteachyou #blackhidstory #treasureourown https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJYi7gJLth/?igshid=1j6nc3arqwwsu