#TDIH

#tdih 1932: U.S. gov't attacked WWI veterans with tanks, bayonets, & tear gas, under leadership of textbook heroes MacArthur, Patton, & Eisenhower. The WWI vets were part of a Bonus
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I don't want this to be a "gotcha!" tweet, I just want to clarify and introduce some more Black history. While Claudette Colvin was the first to have CR leadership
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#tdih 1960, four African-American NC A&T students began a sit-in (planned at Bennett College) at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro. While not first sit-in of modern CRM, it triggered
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In response to calls to rename E. Pettus Bridge for John Lewis, SNCC vet Judy Richardson says: "I hope that we don’t make this struggle about just one man, as
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#tdih 1951, Paul Robeson submitted a petition (edited by William Patterson) to the U.N. titled, “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People,” signed by almost 100
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today on its 30th anniversary, i won't be spending my day celebrating the ADA itself. instead, i'm celebrating those who placed their disabled lives on the line so i would
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49-years ago today, activist Fred Hampton was murdered by Chicago police & the FBI. He was 21, radical, clear-eyed, purposeful. It was his power & potential that made him a
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Does @NCCourts intend to be the last remaining outlier on this issue both nationally & within NC? Why does the portrait of famed slaver & torturer Thomas Ruffin still hold
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#tdih 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott began. One of most powerful stories of organizing. Yet many people associate it with isolated act by Rosa Parks, without context of Parks’ life of
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