I just learned that Blacks in the Jim Crow South were forbidden to eat vanilla ice cream in public. So, Blacks invented butter pecan flavor using leftover pecans they had lying around and ate that in public instead. #icecream #workaround #creativity #jimcrow #blackhistory
I just learned that Blacks in the Jim Crow South were forbidden to eat vanilla ice cream in public. So, Blacks invented butter pecan flavor using leftover pecans they had lying around and ate that in public instead. #icecream #workaround #creativity #jimcrow #blackhistory
Today in Labor History, February 4, 1913: Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1943, she joined the NAACP, eventually becoming the branch secretary, where she investigated cases and organized protest campaigns around cases of racial and sexual violence. In spite of local policies to disenfranchise African American voters, she still registered to vote and did vote from 1943 on. In 1955, she refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in a planned direct action against Jim Crow, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Later in her life, she became a supporter of the Black Power Movement and an anti-Apartheid activist.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #blackhistorymonth #civilrights #rosaparks #directaction #jimcrow #racism #BlackMastodon
Today in Labor History, February 4, 1913: Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1943, she joined the NAACP, eventually becoming the branch secretary, where she investigated cases and organized protest campaigns around cases of racial and sexual violence. In spite of local policies to disenfranchise African American voters, she still registered to vote and did vote from 1943 on. In 1955, she refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in a planned direct action against Jim Crow, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Later in her life, she became a supporter of the Black Power Movement and an anti-Apartheid activist.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #blackhistorymonth #civilrights #rosaparks #directaction #jimcrow #racism #BlackMastodon
Today in Labor History February 1, 1960: Activists began a series of sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. Woolworth’s denied service to 4 black college students because of the color of their skin. In response, they refused to move from a lunch counter, setting off a series of similar protests. By September, 1961, over 70,000 students, white and black, had participated in the sit-ins.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #sitin #racism #jimcrow #greensboro #civilrights #students
Today in Labor History February 1, 1960: Activists began a series of sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. Woolworth’s denied service to 4 black college students because of the color of their skin. In response, they refused to move from a lunch counter, setting off a series of similar protests. By September, 1961, over 70,000 students, white and black, had participated in the sit-ins.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #sitin #racism #jimcrow #greensboro #civilrights #students
I was listening to the #DailyZeitgeist podcast yesterday talking about how #US people compare #ICE to the Gestapo when Hitler and his Nazis used US #JimCrow laws as a basis for their antisemitic laws after the Reichstag Fire, and this #GenX memory popped in my head.
https://youtu.be/KUXb7do9C-w?si=2yvR8CoCAH3QQWm4
#uspol #ICEOut
