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He votes Democratic, not out of any love for abortion rights or progressive taxation, but because he feels—in fact, he knows—that the modern-day GOP draws on the support of people who hate him.”, “We can't go back can we?"

I found out that the history-whitening process either had left out great things that black men had done, or some of the great black men had gotten whitened.”, “Antiblack violencein Chicago was common since at least the 189-s, when blacks were brought in as strikebreakers. I am America.

As soon as Douglass realized that the bank was headed towards certain failure, he imposed drastic spending cuts to limit depositors’ losses. The misdeeds of the bank’s management never came to light.”, “Perhaps because the bank was identified with the endeavors of the newly freed negro, wrote historians Kindsor and Sagarin, anyone who dared to raise a cry against the mismanagement was charged with being anti-negro. 75 Inspirational Quotes About Black History From The World's Greatest Civil Rights Leaders.

In the two years leading up to mid-July 1919, whhites bombed more than twenty-five homes and properties owned by blacks in white areas...One bombing killed a little girl...The police never arrested anyone, infuriating blacks.”, “Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.”, “The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. Each February, Black History Month recognizes, remembers, and respects black people and black history. In 1880, Henry Cook testified about the bank failure and said that bank’s depositors were victims of a widespread universal sweeping financial disaster.

I have borne five children and I seen ‘em mos all sold off into slavery, and when I cried out with a mother’s gried, none but Jesus hear - and ain’t I a woman?”, “Their story, as the Delany sisters like to say, is not meant as "black" or "women's" history, but American history.

It ain't ours anymore. The bank experienced several runs at the height of the panic. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. We worked to find women in a diverse range of fields, and there are few names you might not recognize, but should definitely know.

In a last ditch effort to save the bank, the Trustees appointed Frederick Douglas as Bank President in March of 1874. I knew who the think-they-are-better Negroes were, but who were the better thinkers was another matter.”, “Dat man ober dar say dat women needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted ober ditches, and to have de best places… and ain’t I a woman? Southern Negroes, powerless, continued to be underprivileged in education, medical care, job opportunities and political status.”, “George Floyd’s death may have compelled you to post a black image on your social-media accounts but what it should really have done is made you question yourself and find within you those dark places where intolerance might be hiding for who among us can stand tall and proclaim that they have never been prejudiced towards a certain ethnicity, gender, colour or faith?”, “Once, when they used to set their mouths in what they thought was the Boston Crimp, and ask me about the differences between the ordinary Negro and “the better-thinking Negro”, I used to show my irritation by saying I did not know who the better-thinking Negro was. She swept her hand in front of her, as though she were trying to catch all of Harlem in it, all of New York, all of America.”, “We need to try to see individuals in order to do any kind of justice. The panic would not have affected the bank if it had been a savings bank, but by 1866, the business of the bank had become…reckless speculation, over-capitalization, stock manipulation, intrigue and bribery, and downright plundering…. Explore 50 Black History Quotes by authors including Maya Angelou, Kerry James Marshall, and Neil deGrasse Tyson at BrainyQuote. And what is most lamentable…is the fact that only a few of those who embezzled and defrauded the one-time liquid assets of this bank were ever prosecuted….Congress did appoint a commission led by John AJ Cresswell to look into the failure and to recover as much of the deposits as possible. She looked more serious than she had all night, like she was only just considering that he was a real person and not someone she had dreamed up when he found her asleep. Let us take a stand for what is right. I have not used the word since walking into M. Navies’ class. All white people who have studied history and geography know that Christ was a black man. Quotes tagged as "black-history" Showing 1-30 of 190 “Most people write me off when they see me.

I began to think back on everything I had read and especially with the histories, I realized that nearly all of them read by the general public have been made into white histories.

In as much as the enemies of the negro were not interested in the bank, and the friends were effectively silenced with the anti-negro charge, there was no exposure of the condition of the bank.

More than half of accumulated black wealth disappeared through the mismanagement of the Freedman’s Savings Bank. When the children in the coming years wake up and like the albatross glide across the azure sky. It convince little Black girls from East Oakland to graduate from Howard—summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, to pledge the oldest Black sorority, to earn PhDs, to be in the “right” rooms…” - Melina Abdullah”, Phrase painted on the side of the plane flown by Eugene Bullard in World War I the first black comba, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law. Despite the other Trustees’ attempts to convince Congress otherwise, Congress sided with Douglass, and on June 20, 1874, Congress amended the Charter to authorize the Trustees to end operations.

They say I am just an African.

Black History Month Is Almost Over, So Use These Iconic Quotes About The Civil Rights Movement And Ongoing Social Issues That Surround Race From The World's Greatest Leaders. But the transition was badly handled. Editor. Slaves were simply declared free and then left to their own devises. Kayla Cavanagh. We weren’t human beings; we were n*****. Quotes for Black History Month on inspiration, history, heritage & racism. (From the Preface of "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years)”, “George Floyd’s pleas awakened this world that has been rendered comatose by fear of contagion and all of a sudden nothing mattered but justice.”, “The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under.”, “The significance of a revolution will be known after the days have gone past us. I could work as much as any man (when I could get it), and bear de lash as well - and ain’t I a woman?

Black History Month 2020 is a time to look forward and celebrate the here and now – and the future possibilities. And let us raise our voice against injustice. The third phase takes many forms, but some of them invariably attract support from reactionary elements of white society.”, “It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it, leaving the jailhouse keeper in the rubble”, “The scheme began to unravel following the Panic of 1873 when railroad investments failed. Black History Quotes. Look at me!