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Black stuff, history stuff, book stuff, Zelda stuff, human rights stuff, hiphop stuff, funny stuff, revolutionary stuff, ratchet stuff. I like to leave breadcrumbs
I definitely live the most mundane and boring life in existence lol
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Northern Illinois and NW Indiana, yall stay weather aware today.
It's looking a little nasty
One of the best to ever do anything ever and one of my first real heroes! Fuck yeah Harriet Tubman, you were amazing and one hell of a human.
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10.03.2026 15:43 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0In honor of Harriet Tubman, name someone she would’ve left behind. I’ll start. ALL of Young Money Cash Money
10.03.2026 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The $20 bill
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Happy Harriet Tubman Day to all those who celebrate.
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The pamphlet can be read at gutenberg.org/ebooks/14975
(Ida Wells was *amazing*)
A great read about the sad fact of our history.
10.03.2026 05:16 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Really great thread on such an important person in our history.
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Black History is American History
#WomensHistoryMonth
The final chapter of our current book Conjure: Black Women Ending Slavery talks about this massacre. I have also co-authored a Law School textbook chapter on this with Angela Harris.
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I have heard of it.
But no, I did not hear about the women erasure. Although that doesnt surprise me because women were involved in nearly every revolt, if not all
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it's okay. lol, you guys are the scholars and I learn it all from.the work you do. Im just the layperson intermediary who might be able to reach the people you might not.
Telling stories to people who may not read it elsewhere.
Maybe it'll inspire them like it did me
her autobiography
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22. So what happened to the People's Grocery?
The white residents ransacked it. Tore it apart.
And then it was sold to William Barrett, the owner of the white grocery store across the street.
The whole thing was really about the audacity of Black self-sufficiency and jealousy
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Chapter 6 in Ida B Wells-Barnett's autobiography entitled: Lynching at the Curve. Which recounts what happened at the People's Grocery and the lynchings that followed
Chapter 6 of Paula Giddings' biography on Ida B Wells-Barnett entitled: City of Three Murdered Men." Which recounts the context behind the lynchings and the event itself
21. "The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched."
10.03.2026 03:11 — 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 020. "...which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life."
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19. But there's one line that has always had the biggest impact on me, so I will quote it in full:
The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection...
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
18. Ida B Wells would go on to write a pamphlet called:
"Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases."
She excoriated the violence of the South. Tabulating the lynchings and correcting the stories.
And exposing the truth behind the so-called (g)rapes committed by Black men on white women
17. This event would place Well's on a trajectory that would have her exiled from Memphis, her newspaper destroyed, her life threatened, and to spend the rest of her life exposing the violence and hypocrisy of the South.
THOUSANDS of Blacks left Memphis after that and went West
16. Moss uttered:
"Tell my people to go West, there is no justice for them here.
This event changed a young teacher and journalist's life forever.
Ida B Wells was best friends with Moss & his wife. She was their children's godmother
15. Nine of them went in and retrieved Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and William Stewart.
They dragged them from their cells and brought them to a rail yard outside Memphis.
Despite putting up a noble fight, I will not relay the details here.
Thomas Moss's last words were recorded...
14. This went on for 2 days, from March 6 to March 8. After believing tensions had mostly cooled, the armed men left the jail grounds. Which were already well protected without them.
This was a grave mistake.
On the early morning of March 9, 1892, 75 masked men surrounded the jail.
13. The next day, hundreds of white men were deputized and went door to door, rounding up Black people, including the owner of the store, Thomas Moss.
Armed Black men gathered outside the jail to protect those arrested, knowing a mob might try to break in and lynch them
12. Anticipating an impending mob attack, the men inside immediately began shooting, injuring several of the white men.
They ran from the store to Barrett's store across the street. They deputized more men, ran into the store and arrested 13 men from the People's Grocery
11. Then the local newspapers got involved, telling of a Black conspiracy which ignited a local judge to round up a posse to get rid of them.
That evening, six deputized armed white men - including the sheriff - went to the People's Grocery asking about Stewart, surrounding the store
10. McDowell picked up the dropped gun and took a shot at Barrett and missed.
He was arrested and a warrant was issued my Stewart.
The warrant enraged the Black community. Barrett went to the authorities telling of a Black conspiracy to attack the White community
9. The next day, Barrett returned to the People's Grocery with a police officer looking for the man - William Stewart - who had struck him.
Instead he was met by McDowell who said he hadn't seen Stewart. Barrett then drew his gun and hit McDowell.
But he also dropped the gun