organization:civil rights

Hazel Bryan Massery (l’étudiante blanche qui insulte) Elizabeth Eckford (l’étudiante noire qui est seule ou presque au milieu d’une foule hostile).

Elizabeth Eckford assise sur un banc en attendant le bus, est rejointe par un journaliste qui lui dit « ne pleure pas, ils ne méritent pas tes larmes ».

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was on September 4th, 1957, when the “Little Rock Nine” Crisis happened. On that day nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School, although at first the students were prevented from entering the school. This was because at the time Little Rock Central High School was originally a racially segregated school. So, as the students began to approach the school, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus stood in front of the doors and would not let the African American students in. It was not until President Dwight D. Eisenhower intervened, by placing the Arkansas National Guard under federal control and ordering them to escort and protect the students as they entered school, that they were finally allowed in. As the African American students made their way to the school white people were parading around them in protest, constantly harassing them, screaming and throwing things at the African American students.

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Hazel Massery - Wikipedia
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Hazel Bryan Massery (born c. 1941) was a student at Little Rock Central High School during the Civil Rights Movement. She was depicted in an iconic photograph that showed her shouting at Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, during the school integration crisis. In her later life, she sought to make amends for her behavior, briefly becoming friends with Eckford.

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A Diversity Deficit in New Jersey Schools - As public school segregation increases, what are the consequences ?
▻https://www.nj7citizensforchange.org/a_diversity_deficit_in_new_jersey_schools

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As public school segregation increases, what are the consequences?

According to a study published last year by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, nearly 50 percent of African-American students in New Jersey attend schools where less than 10 percent of the student body is white. And the typical white student attends a public school in which two-thirds of the population is Caucasian.

Racial segregation is not a problem that exists only in the past. Despite widely documented progress in U.S. history to limit racism, studies suggest that segregation is still an issue in today’s world. Especially right here in the schools of New Jersey.

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Little Rock 1957 : l’histoire d’Elizabeth Eckford, lycéenne noire dans un lycée blanc - YouTube
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHttKu8JmRU

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HARDtalk Elizabeth Eckford - YouTube
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNLDRZhA6s0

In September 1957, nine African American students, including Elizabeth Eckford, entered the all-white Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas, thereby breaking the racial segregation barrier in US schools for the first time. They became known as the Little Rock Nine. Two years earlier the US Supreme Court had ruled segregation in schools to be unconstitutional. The first time Elizabeth Eckford tried to enter Little Rock Central High she was turned away, and the image of her surrounded by a hostile crowd of local white people is one of the most famous photographs of the American civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 60s. Stephen Sackur is at her family home in Little Rock and asks if she regrets her central role in a famous chapter of recent American history.

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Elizabeth Eckford : la ségrégation, le pardon et le refus de la manipulation
▻https://www.nofi.media/2016/10/elizabeth-eckford-segregation-pardon/31105

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#droits_civique #états-unis #racisme

Teach Us All
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/teach-us-all

Sixty years after the Little Rock Nine faced violent resistance when they desegregated Central High, America’s schools continue to represent the key battleground of the Civil Rights Movement...

500 Years of Black Resistance

In 1526, the very first Africans arrived in North America as slaves of the San Miguel de Guadalupe colony. They promptly revolted and took refuge with the local indigenous people, becoming the first permanent non-native inhabitants of what would become the United States. Since that time, African-American resistance has taken a variety of forms as their challenges shifted from slavery to lynching, segregation, inequality, discrimination, profiling, mass-incarceration, police violence, and others.

During the slavery era, common forms of resistance included slave revolts, sabotage, and escape to free states, other countries, or independent communities (maroons). Some captives chose to commit suicide rather than submit to slavery. Perhaps the most day-to-day form of slave resistance was slowing the pace of their work. This contributed to the perception that black people are lazy and docile. If nothing else, this map debunks that racist stereotype. The African-American fight for justice has, for centuries, been as constant as it is widespread, showing that they are anything but a submissive people.

After the abolition of slavery, free black communities began to organize for self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and lynching mobs. The early 20th century saw the first public demonstrations for civil rights after a wave of lynching violence against black communities. During the Civil Rights Movement, many nonviolent tactics like sit-ins, boycotts, strikes, occupations, and civil disobedience were developed. This era also saw the rise of more militant factions and rising discontent led to occasionally violent uprisings. Today, a new wave of civil rights has been ushered in by movements like Black Lives Matter. Activists employ the whole toolkit from symbolic actions like kneeling during the national anthem to direct actions like removing the confederate flag from the South Carolina State House and pulling down the Confederate Soldiers Monument in Durham.

May we take inspiration from the past and honor those who fought. Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream, may we all keep up the fight.

The places and events documented on this map are by no means an exhaustive list of all black resistance movements. Leave us a comment letting us know about the black resistance milestones you would include.

The background of the map depicts the percent black population from the 2010 census.

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Et du coup je découvre cet #atlas_décolonial (#atlas sous forme de blog), qui peut bien plaire notamment à @reka !

5 jours sous #trump

Five. Days. In.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Minority Business Development Agency.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Economic Development Administration.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the International Trade Administration.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Legal Services Corporation.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Fossil Energy.

On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered all regulatory powers of all federal agencies frozen.

On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered the National Parks Service to stop using social media after RTing factual, side by side photos of the crowds for the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations.

On January 20th, 2017, roughly 230 protestors were arrested in DC and face unprecedented felony riot charges. Among them were legal observers, journalists, and medics.

On January 20th, 2017, a member of the International Workers of the World was shot in the stomach at an anti-fascist protest in Seattle. He remains in critical condition.

On January 21st, 2017, DT brought a group of 40 cheerleaders to a meeting with the CIA to cheer for him during a speech that consisted almost entirely of framing himself as the victim of dishonest press.

On January 21st, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a press conference largely to attack the press for accurately reporting the size of attendance at the inaugural festivities, saying that the inauguration had the largest audience of any in history, “period.”

On January 22nd, 2017, White House advisor Kellyann Conway defended Spicer’s lies as “alternative facts” on national television news.

On January 22nd, 2017, DT appeared to blow a kiss to director James Comey during a meeting with the FBI, and then opened his arms in a gesture of strange, paternal affection, before hugging him with a pat on the back.

On January 23rd, 2017, DT reinstated the global gag order, which defunds international organizations that even mention abortion as a medical option.

On January 23rd, 2017, Spicer said that the US will not tolerate China’s expansion onto islands in the South China Sea, essentially threatening war with China.

On January 23rd, 2017, DT repeated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing him the popular vote.

On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced that the man who shot the anti-fascist protester in Seattle was released without charges, despite turning himself in.

On January 24th, 2017, Spicer reiterated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote.

On January 24th, 2017, DT tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter account of a photo he says depicts the crowd at his inauguration and will hang in the White House press room. The photo is of the 2009 inauguration of 44th President Barack Obama, and is curiously dated January 21st, 2017, the day AFTER the inauguration and the day of the Women’s March, the largest inauguration related protest in history.

On January 24th, 2017, the EPA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to freeze all grants and contracts.

On January 24th, 2017, the USDA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to stop publishing any papers or research. All communication with the press would also have to be authorized and vetted by the White House.

On January 24th, 2017, HR7, a bill that would prohibit federal funding not only to abortion service providers, but to any insurance coverage, including Medicaid, that provides abortion coverage, went to the floor of the House for a vote.

On January 24th, 2017, DT ordered the resumption of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, while the North Dakota state congress considers a bill that would legalize hitting and killing protestors with cars if they are on roadways.

On January 24th, 2017, it was discovered that police officers had used confiscated cell phones to search the emails and messages of the 230 demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for protesting on January 20th, including lawyers and journalists whose email accounts contain privileged information of clients and sources.

From News and Guts

*credit for compilation: Karen Cornett-Dwyer
h/t Laura McTighe

Fearless activist and academic Angela Davis to deliver Steve Biko memorial lecture | News | National | M&G
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he’s been called too militant, too violent, and even a terrorist. On Friday, Angela Davis will deliver the keynote address at the Steve Biko Memorial Lecture. Her impending arrival has many South Africans excited, but she was not always a woman many openly adored.

In a time when the United States was caught in the throes of the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s, a young woman stood out as a radical black feminist, a philosopher and a pioneer of political thought. She wore her Afro unashamedly even when the police targeted her for it. Her fearless ability to call white people out on their racism marked Davis as a woman who must be captured by the Nixon-led US government. She was on the FBI’s most wanted list, and managed to outrun the Feds before she was wrongfully arrested for kidnapping and murder and spent 18 months in prison.

“The whole apparatus of the state was set up against me,” Davis said in an interview with Swedish television while she was incarcerated in 1972.

#angela_davis

The Future of Race in America: Michelle Alexander at Tedx
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-future-of-race-in-america-michelle-alexander-at-tedx

Michelle Alexander posits that mass incarceration perpetuates a racial caste system in the United States. After the Civil Rights Movement, a “wave of punitive” legislation swept across the...

Nina Simone biopic bombs with critics amid Zoe Saldana race controversy
▻http://www.factmag.com/2016/04/20/nina-simone-biopic-bombs-critics-zoe-saldana-race-controversy

Controversial Nina Simone biopic Nina has been savaged by critics following preview screenings in the States.

The film was heavily criticised due to the casting of lead actress Zoe Saldana, who is of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent, with many feeling Saldana was too petite and light-skinned to play the iconic singer.

Last month, the release of the first trailer prompted the estate of Nina Simone to tweet: “Please take Nina’s name out your mouth. For the rest of your life” at Saldana after the actress responded to criticism with a quote from Simone.

The Root say the film is as “horrible as you thought it could be”, complaining that Saldana’s attempts at singing Simone’s songs further hold the film back: “The acting is questionable, but at least viewers could have enjoyed the music. But nope! Saldana can hold an all right note, but not a candle to Simone.” According to Entertainment Weekly, meanwhile, “Nina is a by-the-numbers musical biopic riddled with every conceivable cliché about the tortured artist” that bizarrely glosses over her years as a prominent voice in the Civil Rights Movement in a five-minute montage. Maybe most damning is Indie Wire’s verdict, who claim the film “isn’t just racially insensitive, it’s also ineptly told.”

#bam

How a White Supremacist Became a Civil Rights Activist
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/how-a-white-supremacist-became-a-civil-rights-activist

The contact hypothesis, a popular theory in the field of psychology, proposes that people become more tolerant toward each other when they have experience working toward a common goal...

A Direct Line Between Love and Hate (Or: No, Mr. President, There’s No Comparing Israel and the Civil Rights Movement) - News & Views - EBONY
▻http://www.ebony.com/news-views/a-direct-line-between-love-and-hate-or-no-mr-president-theres-no-comparing-is

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There is no direct line from Zionism to the Black Freedom struggle. No rhetorical imagination-acrobatics can conjure one and no amount of intimidation can chart one. It is a racist, exploitative, and exclusionary ideology; its eagerness to attack and silence detractors is only matched by its eagerness to co-opt the struggles of Blacks in this country (by a Black in this country) for its own survival.

#James_Baldwin at 90: Part 1 “Not the Country We’re Sitting in Now”
▻http://africasacountry.com/james-baldwin-at-90-1-not-the-country-were-sitting-in-now

By May, 1963, James Baldwin had become the most visible “spokesman”—a term he hated—for the Civil Rights Movement—a phrase he didn’t like much more. May was an intense month. In an inauspicious beginning, Harper’s published a set of his letters to his agent Bob Mills (1). Early in the month, going from San Francisco “to […]

Time to talk about the war on Islam — War in Context
▻http://warincontext.org/2013/04/24/time-to-talk-about-the-war-on-islam

A 60 Minutes report which aired on Sunday provided a glimpse of the 9/11 Museum in New York, currently under construction and scheduled to open next year. The report underlined the degree to which 9/11 has become a pillar in America’s national mythology.

For many Americans the events of that day clearly hold more significance than perhaps any other event in American history — more significance than the war in Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, World War Two, Hiroshima, the Great Depression, the Civil War, or the American Revolution.

Central to the 9/11 narrative is the idea that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon constituted an attack on America. This central presupposition is virtually never publicly questioned. Indeed, 9/11 has been sacralized and the site of the attacks in New York has become a place of pilgrimage. 9/11 has been made central to American identity.

That an event whose physical effects were so limited could nevertheless become a turning point in a nation’s history is remarkable. One could also argue that it was wholly unwarranted. But even if it seems unreasonable to believe that nineteen men have the capacity to attack a nation of over 300 million people, it is a fact that 9/11 is generally viewed as an attack on America.

There is a counterpart to this view that rarely gets mentioned in American discourse: that America’s response to 9/11 was to launch a war on Islam. On the occasions that the post-9/11 era is described in that way, it is almost always prefaced with “some Muslims believe…” The notion of an American war on Islam is treated as an expression of Muslim paranoia.

Wars and military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia — all Muslim nations; the creation of a prison system in which all the detainees are Muslims; the deaths of about a million Muslims and the displacement of millions more; at a time that close to half of Americans believe that Islam and American values are incompatible.

If this isn’t a war on Islam, what would a war on Islam look like?

At the very least, can it not be admitted that the perception of a war on Islam has a stronger objective basis than the perception of America facing a national threat?

Bayard Rustin: The invisible civil rights rights leader, organiser, intellectual and gay man - by Zackie Achmat « Writing Rights
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A Quaker and therefore a pacifist, Rustin was one of the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement in the United States. He was the chief organiser of the March on Washington for the civil rights of African-Americans where Martin Luther King jnr. gave his most famous “I have a Dream” speech. For decades, Rustin disappeared from history. Rustin’s gay identity and the homophobia of all progressive movements but specifically the Black community in the United States was at the core of his political invisibility.

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#histoire #etats-unis