Martin Luther King. Dream has become a Nightmare

 

In this video, recorded 11 months before his assassination

 Dr. King mentions, the three evils that America must address;

Poverty, racism and militarism. It seems like America still has a way to go.

Songs of Protest and Inspiration performed by Nina Simone.

 The High Priestess of Soul was one talented Lady. I haven't seen many artists that can capture an audience and move them in any direction they desire from one second to the next.

I believe she did this not by design but by allowing those sharing the moment with her, into her innermost intimate place and just being herself, which is why she always seemed so vulnerable. This condition of vulnerability coupled with the nature of these following pieces make for some spectacularly moving performances. Hang on to your hearts.
W.P.


Nina Simone - Revolution & Strange Fruit


Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddam


Nina Simone - Blackbird


Nina Simone: Go To Hell


Nina Simone - I Shall Be Released


Nina Simone: Four Women


Nina Simone: Take Me To The Water


Nina Simone: To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Americans consider Frederick Douglass's words

The following recording is an example of the kind of effort that will be necessary for Americans to begin racial healing. It's good to see that some folks are making the attempt and we can all follow their example.

Frederick Douglass

VHC, Reading: Frederick Douglass, The 4th of July
by KATV

Frederick Douglass the Orator - a biography

by Gregory, James M. (James Monroe), 1849-1915

Cointelpro tactics that need to be examined.

Freedom is as freedom does. Take a long look at America's so-called leaders.

Freedom summer in Los Angeles (October 7, 1963)

Description: An audio mosaic of people and sounds which tells the events of the integration struggles of the summer of 1963 in Los Angeles. It represents the four areas of concern as they are met locally by Negro leaders: housing, education, employment and police practices. The sources of the material run the full range of diversity from narrations of arrests, integration group meetings, rallies, press conferences and personal interviews. Reel 1 includes audio of James Baldwin speaking in Los Angeles about Birmingham, excerpts from coverage of the Black Muslims trial, and a sit-in protest by CORE and UCRC of developer Don Wilson's offices in Torrance. Reel 2 includes actuality of a protest of the Los Angeles Board of Education, UCRC spokespeople discussing the entertainment industry, the 1963 March on Washington, and a discussion of Black separatism. Written and produced by Leonard Brown and Jim Osborn. Narrated by Fred Haines. 

Rights: Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Pacifica Radio Archives. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. 

The Children of Birmingham 1963 and the One Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty Two Children Arrested

African History Before Slavery

LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover discussing Mississippi Civil Rights Workers' Murders (1964)

This is a very interesting communication between the president and the head of the FBI. I don't know if I believe the part about the local authorities cooperating with the federal agents. Notice how FBI director Hoover assumes right away that the young men have been killed. After that he tries to say it's  possible that the rights workers faked their own abduction.

The Harlem Hellfighters on Parade

An Essay Toward a History of the Black Man in the Great War (June 1919) by W.E. Burghardt DuBois

"Fresh back from an investigative trip to Europe, editor of the monthly magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), W.E.B. DuBois, outlines the history of black soldiers in World War I, both the 280,000 Senegalese who fought for France at the Marne, 30,000 Congolese fighting for the Belgians, as well as the 200,000 American blacks with the American Expeditionary Force in Europe."

Uploaded to Archive.org on March 4, 2014 by Tim Davenport ("Carrite").

Scott's official history of the American Negro in the World War

E.J. Scott

 A complete and authentic narration, from official sources, of the participation of American soldiers of the Negro race in the World War for democracy ... a full acount of the war work organizations of colored men and women and other civilian activities, including the Red Cross, the Y.M.C.A., the Y.W.C.A. and the War camp community service, with official summary of treaty of peace and League of Nations covenant (1919)

Don't forget our Black Unsung Heroes

The Invisible Soldiers: Unheard Voices of Black WWII Vets

On November 11 Remember - Black War Vets

THREE FRONTS: Testimonies of Black American WWII  

Veterans by LILI BERNARD

James Reese Europe the Hellfighters

WWII Black Female Battalion

African Americans in the Military: 

A Legacy of Exceptional Service

A booklet on Negro veterans after WWII

Let's not forget on November 11, that African Americans have always served the country, in every war.
Here is a little booklet that came out after WWII about the situations faced by Black vets after that war.

African American celebs looking for their Roots.

New technology, the digitization of statistics and the popularity of  genealogical programs on TV have stimulated many African Americans to seek out their roots. While it can be very difficult to trace family lineages through paper trails back to the mother land, DNA testing does enable the discovery of ethnic origins in Africa. Watch and see some of the interesting results.

If we look carefully we'll find that we all go back to one source.

The African in Canada The Maroons of Jamaica and Nova Scotia (Updated)

Published 1890

Papers relative to the settling of the Maroons in His Majesty's province of Nova Scotia  (1798)

"Negro slavery disappeared from the Province of Nova Scotia during the latter part of last century, without legislative enactment, by
what Judge Haliburton, in his history of Nova Scotia, calls " latent
abandonment beneficial to the country." There remained a number
of emancipated provincial slaves and still more Africans who escaped
to Nova Scotia from the United States. These latter people were
called " Loyal Negroes." In 1821 a party of nearly one hundred of
them emigrated to Trinidad. But before this, on the founding of
Sierra Leone on the west coast of Africa, about twelve hundred went
there, arri>dng in 1792. Four years after this, three ships entered
the harbour of Halifax, laden with the most extraordinary cargoes
that ever entered that port. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, then in
command at Halifax, boarded the Dover, was met by Colonel W. D.
Quarrell, Commissary- General of Jamaica, with whom Mr. Alexander
Ouchterlony was associated, and a detachment of the 96th Regiment
drawn up on board to receive him. Black men of good proportions
with many women and children, all in neat uniform attire, were
mustered in lines. Other transports, the Mary and Anne, were, his
Highness was infornjed, about to follow, and the main cargo was six
hundred Maroons exiled from Jamaica with soldiers to guard them
and meet any attacks from French vessels on the voyage.

The Prince was struck with the fine appearance of the black men,
but the citizens had heard of how Jamaica had been harried by its
black banditti, and were unwilling at first to have them added to
their population. When the Spaniards first settled in the Antilles in
1509, it is estimated by Las Casas, Robertson, ami other historians
that the Indian inhabitants amounted to ten million souls, but by the
 exercise of the utmost atrocities, these were melted away until none
remained to work as slaves in the mines or in the fields. "

September 23, 1961 Thurgood Marshall is appointed to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by President John F. Kennedy

“Marshall was nominated by President John F. Kennedy for appointment to the Second Supreme Court of Appeals (New York, Connecticut, and Vermont) September 23, 1961. The appointment was confirmed by the Senate. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Judge Marshall to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. On August 30, 1967, Marshall was confirmed by the Senate to be the ninety-sixth Supreme Court Justice. He was the first African American to serve as a Justice of the Supreme court.

Justice Marshall received many awards and citations for his outstanding contributions to the field of civil rights until his death in 1993.”
Chicken and Bones

Thurgood Marshall in Action

A discourse delivered on the death of Capt. Paul Cuffe

A discourse delivered on the death of Capt. Paul Cuffe : before the New-York African Institution, in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, October 21, 1817 Paul Cuffee or Paul Cuffe (January 17, 1759 – September 9, 1817) was a Quaker businessman, sea captain, patriot, and abolitionist. He was of Aquinnah Wampanoag and West African Ashanti descent and helped colonize Sierra Leone. Cuffe built a lucrative shipping empire and established the first racially integrated school in Westport, Massachusetts.

The Black Man's Burden

        By H. T. Johnson, D.D., Ph.D.

The "Black Man's Burden" was delivered at my request
to a large and appreciative audience on the closing
evening of my Nova Scotia Conference, in Halifax,
August 21, 1899. For an hour the rapt attention of the
intelligent audience, punctuated with frequent outbursts
of applause, was a sufficient testimonial to Dr. Johnson's
mastery of the subject, and the occasion. The action of
the audience in requesting its publication, after an
unanimous vote of thanks to the lecturer, bespeak more
for the value of the lecture than any word I may further add.

One of the Bishops A. M. E. Church.

PREFACE.

The appearance of this lecture in its present form is due to
the unanimous action of the audience in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
before whom it was first delivered.
By rising, unanimous vote it was resolved that the lecturer
be tendered an expression of gratitude and approbation for his able,
instructive, and valuable address on "The Black Man's Burden."
In view of its wholesome truths and practical data,
touching the history, achievements and prospects of the
colored people of America, it was a united request that the lecture
be published and placed within the reach of thousands who could
not be present to hear it.