#Segregation

Justin Thee Stallion

by_justin

A small thread of things you might not know are linked to racisms Yale University was named after a slave trader.https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-college-formerly-known-as-yale-1470698364 While we're talking about these institutions:

Marco Chitti

ChittiMarco

1/ The debate between BRT (rubber based transit) and LRT/Tramway (rail-based transit) is often split around ideological lines. But the reality is that the choice is not so neat and

Midwest People's History

MPHProject

THREAD:As police and politicians insist that this wave of uprisings is the sole work of "outside agitators" to justify violent crackdowns, now's the time to revisit the long, racist history

Sean M Joyce

SeanMJoyce1

June 27, 1934- The National Housing Act is signed by Democrat FDR and with it, begins the process of "redlining" urban areas which segregated the cities with color coded maps

Laura Seay

texasinafrica

Most white American abolitionists were white supremacists. As I teach my students, they got it right on the evils of slavery & fighting to end it. But most were woefully

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

Everyone's talking about impeachment and Clinton & Johnson as the only presidents ever impeached. But most people don't know WHY Johnson was impeached.So let me tell you the story about

Will McAvoy

WillMcAvoyACN

So, since Donald Trump has (falsely) claimed over the last few days that Joe Biden wants to destroy the suburbs, let's take a look at the history of suburban America,

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Starbioola

On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, a 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally mvrdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four

Dave

SandleDavid

Joe Biden Thread : https://theintercept.com/2020/01/13/biden-cuts-social-security/ https://www.gq.com/story/joe-biden-bankruptcy-bill https://www.businessinsider.com/plagiarism-scandal-joe-biden-first-presidential-run-1988-2019-3 https://pr

Dr. Merritt Turetsky

queenofpeat

It's a great day for a permafrost mash-up! Let's combine a few things I love - permafrost, language, & culture. Follow this thread if you want to learn some *cool*

Thurgood Marshall Institute

TMI_LDF

THREAD: When white supremacists stormed the Capitol waving confederate flags, they followed a long history of racial terror and state sanctioned violence. Erasure of this domestic terrorism has upheld white

Brian Lyman

lyman_brian

A thread of some of the unknown or unexpected stories of Black history in Alabama published in the @MGMAdvertiser this year.Enslaved at 18. A congressman at 28. And a prisoner

Daily Suffragist

DailySuffragist

Mary Grew, abolitionist leader & newspaper editor. Her work was respected by all the men in the movement—except her own father.Maryback row w/the Penn. AntiSlavery Society. Margaret Burleigh, her partner

Meer Shahid

SShahid_1

Somebody was saying a few days ago that his family migrated from Kashmir before partition in 1878 and there are still restrictions on couple of things the ladies of his

AfrikanNet

afrikanNet

The Horn of Africa showed no mercy to the white man and his colonial ways. Let's look at the case of Somalis and Ethiopians.When the British came to Somali shores

Hannah Bernstein

hannahbern2

I know 800 things are happening rn but down here in FL, Hurricane Eta made landfall (twice) & it sucked! We’ve got a record hurricane season with more to come.

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