-Dr. Carter G. Woodeon (1875-1950) founds the first nationally organized celebration of Black American history then called Negro History Week which was first celebrated on this day in 1926. Woodson scheduled the week to coincide with the birthdays of Civil War President Abraham Lincoln and Black abolitionist Frederick Douglas. However, in 1976, Negro History Week was expanded into the current day Black History, Month. For his efforts in promoting knowledge of Black historical achievements Woodson became known as the "Father of Black History." In explaining the need for the celebration, Woodson once said, "Those who, have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of Biography and history. -A date considered by many to ...
...March 3. 1968-The infamous COINTELPRO memorandum is sent to FBI field offices around the...Civil Rights Movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn....
- Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) founds the first nationally organized celebration of Black American history then called Negro History Week which was first celebrated on this day in 1926. Woodson scheduled the week to coincide with the birthdays of Civil War President Abraham Lincoln and Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. However, in 1976, Negro History Week was expanded into the current Black History Month. For his efforts in promoting knowledge of Black historical achievements, Woodson became known as the "Father of Black History." In explain ing the need for the celebration, Woodson once said, "Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. - A date considered by many to...
...March 3. 1968-The infamous COINTELPRO memorandum was sent to FBI field offices around th...Martin Luther King Jr, was assassinated in Memphis, Itemi...
...COINTELPRO. 2. Infiltration/Discrediting of Radical Environme... Gannett are also on the boards of Lockheed Martin Corporation, Continental Airlines, Inc., PepsiCo, ... of the COINTELPRO program included Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Co...
-A date considered by many to mark the beginning of the great "Exodus of 1879" when thousands of Blacks began fleeing racism, violence and economic exploitation in the South for new lives in the Midwest, especially Kansas. One of the most prominent organizers of the exodus was former Tennessee slave Benjamin "Pap" Singleton. An estimated 20,000 Blacks took part in the exodus. They were driven in part by the Homestead Act which promised free land. But by 1880, efforts had already begun to curtail the movement of Blacks to the Midwest. In 1881, Pap Singleton was hauled before a Senate investigative committee looking into his role in the exodus. -Actress Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African-American to win an Oscar. She won for the supporting role of "Mammy" in the classic fil...
...March 3. 1968-The infamous COINTELPRO memorandum is sent to FBI field offices around the...Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn....
-Ethiopia defeats Italy at the Battle of Adowa (also called Adwa). It was one of the few successful military victories of Africans over Europeans as the latter attempted to colonize and economically exploit the African continent. The nominal head of the Ethiopian forces was Emperor Menelik II but the lead general was Ras Makonnen-father of the man who would become next Emperor Haile Selassie. Pictured left: Ras Makonnen with his young son, Ras Tafari (later Haile Selassie). The battle which began on March 1, 1896 would leave 6,000 Italians and 10,000 Ethiopians dead. But the victory forced Europe to recognize Ethiopia as an independent and sovereign nation as well as give inspiration to Blacks worldwide who were fighting for freedom. -The infamous COINTELPRO memorandum is sent t...
...Martin Luther Ring Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn.... in some way involved with the killing of King. 1991-Motorist Rodney King is brutally beaten by a...
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- An organization at the forefront of combating illegal FBI surveillance tactics in the seventies now urges Congress to undertake a complete and thorough review of reports that the Pentagon is spying on "peaceful anti-war and counter-military recruitment groups. Calling it a "new McCarthyism," the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) also likened the troublesome revelation to the notorious COINTELPRO, an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program -- the covert FBI project aimed at undercutting Vietnam anti-war organizing and the civil rights movement. COINTELPRO was publicly unmasked through congressional hearings in 1975, leading to stronger congressional oversight of federal law enforcement. Many of the protections instituted then have been e...
...Martin Luther King Jr.," states Joyce Miller, AFSC assist...
Last Saturday at Roxbury Community College, three former members of the Black Panther Party, John Bowman, Hank Jones and Ray Boudreaux, brought home the reality of the government's torture of its own citizens to over 50 activists and local residents at the "Stop Political Repression" event hosted by Jericho Boston, an organization fighting to free all political prisoners. All three spoke frankly and openly about their abuse by the New Orleans police after being arrested in 1973 along with ten other suspected "black militants." These men and several others were held for days by authorities seeking information about the Black Panther Party's activities. These men had long suspected that the San Francisco Police Department and other authorities had targeted them. "We would get stopped in t...
...Groups ranging from Dr. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Confer...
Membership rolls surged in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as many young African Americans began to question the wisdom of the late civil rights leader's philosophy of civil disobedience and passive resistance. The U.S. government came down hard on the Panthers, using the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), along with local authorities, to discredit, imprison and otherwise neutralize its members and sympathizers. Scale himself spent over two years in jail on a variety of charges, and was ultimately vindicated in each case. Yeah, but Charles Carry was in the hospital recovering from a gallbladder operation. So I had made a motion to defend myself at the beginning of the trial, before the jury had heard even one shred of evidence, since my lawyer ...
McGovern comments on NSA's warrantless spying of US citizens. Among other things, he says that abuse of private information can be very dangerous than the loss of the personal privacy that so many say they are willing to trade for a bit more security. Such abuse constitutes serious trammeling of civil liberties and can tip the precarious balance of constitutional checks and balances.
...The FBI's COINTELPRO activity's use of such information to harass and ddiscredit Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a particularly glaring example...
* 1939-Marvin Gaye is born in Washington, D.C. He signs with Detroit's Motown in 1962 and goes on to become one of the leading R&B male vocalists of the 1960's, 1970's and early 1980's with hits ranging from the socially conscious "What's Going On" to the sexy "Let's Get It On." Gaye was shot to death by his father during an argument in 1984. * 1976-The infamous COINTELPRO documents are released. In response to an accidental discovery at a warehouse and a freedom of information lawsuit, the FBI is forced to release documents detailing an intensive and extensive campaign to disrupt and destroy civil rights and anti-war organizations and their leaders. Among the documents released was a letter dated August 25, 1967 which made clear that one of the campaign's chief aims was "to expose,...
... as far back as the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon of the Christian Bible. * 1950-Carter G. W...* 1968- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his powerful and propheti...
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