#tdih 1851 Shadrach Minkins, who had escaped from slavery in Norfolk, became first person arrested in Mass. under horrific Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

A group of abolitionists freed Minkins from U.S. Marshals in Boston & helped him escape to Canada.

Read⬇️ 🧵
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#tdih 1936, rubber workers began a sit-down strike at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio.

This strategy meant that factory owners could not use scab labor and police were less likely to attack workers since that could also damage plant property. ⬇️
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On this day in 1847, Missouri passed an act that prohibited Black people from learning to read and write and assembling freely for worship services. The act also forbade free Black people from migrating to the state.

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

#PresidentsDayWeekend history lesson

Democracy & justice throughout U.S. history have required that people organize to oppose presidential support for slavery, war, invasion, environmental destruction, segregation, mass deportations, & injustice of all kinds. ⬇️
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

On this day in 1804, New Jersey appeased the state's enslavers by passing a "gradual emancipation" law that delayed the end of slavery for decades.

"When the Civil Rights Struggle Finally Made It to the Front Page" (Of the white press, that is. It had long been on the front page of the Black press.)

Article by Tom Hundley of @pulitzercenter.bsky.social on an important story in 1946 Tennessee history. ⬇️
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#tdih 2010 Earthquake in Haiti

. . . I want to talk about disasters.
How men make them with
embargoes, exploitation,
stigma, sabotage, scalding
debt & cold shoulders. — Lenelle Moïse

Full poem & more from: @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @democracynow.org ⬇️
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On this day in 1931, a mob of 2,000 white people seized a Black man named Raymond Gunn, placed him on the roof of a school for white students, and burned him alive.

Tonight's sunset.

The Tulsa Race Massacre was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens, the Justice Department said in a report. It was the first time the U.S. government has given an official account of the 1921 massacre of Black residents.