[Black Veterans & Racial Violence]
EJI: “The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has documented at least 35 military veterans who were victims of racial terror lynching from 1865 to 1950.”
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Medgar Evers
ELLA BAKER’S 1964 “ADDRESS AT THE HATTIESBURG FREEDOM DAY RALLY”
[Celebrating Black History Month\Ella Baker]
Ella Baker: People cannot be free until they realize that peace—we can talk about peace—that peace is not the absence of war or struggle, it is the presence of justice…people cannot be free until there is enough work in the land to give everybody a job.”
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MEDGAR EVERS: “WHAT THEN DOES THE NEGRO WANT?”
[Celebrating Black History Month\Medgar Evers]
Medgar Evers: “The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home.”
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FANNIE LOU HAMER: “IS THIS AMERICA, THE LAND OF THE FREE?”
[Celebrating Black History Month\Fannie Lou Hamer]
Fannie Lou Hamer: “I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES TO FEATURE IMPORTANT HISTORICAL PROGRAMMING FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH
[Black History Month\National Archives Programs]
To honor African American History month, the National Archives presents several author book talks…These programs are free and open to the public and will be held in the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC.
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FANNIE LOU HAMER’S SPEECH AT 1964 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: BLACKS FACE POLICE VIOLENCE TRYING TO VOTE
[Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer]
Fannie Lou Hamer, in 1964: “I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?”
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