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Early Black Unions

9/10/23

Week of:

September 10, 2023

Early Black Unions

Although the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (Pullman Porters ) which was in last week's resources is often described as the first Black trade union, in fact there were organizations that preceded it or were essentially contemporaneous. Here is an opportunity to learn more about some of them.

via black-culture.com

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‍Labor Day Black History | Newsflash––black labor built this country. Here's your Labor Day black history lesson: | By The Root | Facebook‍

‍Moments in Labor and Black History: the American League of Colored Laborers - YouTube‍

‍The Revolutionary Life of Lucy Parsons - Bing video

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‍Isaac Myers: Pioneer of the African-American Trade Union Movement | American Postal Workers Union (apwu.org)‍

‍Labor History: From caulker to labor leader - PEF Communicator‍

‍Black Women Built That: Labor and Workers’ Rights - National Women's Law Center (nwlc.org)‍

‍The Colored National Labor Union, a story - African American Registry (aaregistry.org)‍

‍5 Black-led labor unions that have paved the way for Black workers' rights (chicagocrusader.com)‍

‍African Americans and the Labor Movement – Black Culture (black-culture.com)

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Labor Unions Part 1 – Black History for White People – Podcast – Podtail

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African Americans and the American Labor Movement | National Archives

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Pullman Porters

9/3/23

Week of:

September 3, 2023

Pullman Porters

It is Labor Day weekend and an opportunity to learn about what is often considered to be the first Black labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, also known as Pullman Porters.

An unnamed Pullman porter works at Chicago's Union Station in 1943. Jack Delano/Library of Congress

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Pullman Porters - YouTube

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‍Five Things to Know About Pullman Porters | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

‍Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (1925-1978) • (blackpast.org)

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‍"Rise from the Rails: The Story of the Pullman Porter" --DemocracyNow! - YouTube‍

‍Labor Beat: Pullman Porters - Ordinary Men That Changed a Nation - YouTube

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‍Pullman Porters & the History of the Black Working Class | Unsung History (unsunghistorypodcast.com)‍

‍Interludes - Men of Distinction: The Pullman Porters (google.com)

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10,000 Men named George - YouTube

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Rising from the rails : Pullman porters and the making of the... | Arlington Public Library (arlingtonva.us)

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Maroon Communities outside the US

8/27/23

Week of:

August 27, 2023

Maroon Communities outside the US

"Maroons" — enslaved persons who resisted and freed themselves — were found throughout the Americas. Learn more about some of the communities outside the United States in this week's resources.

A Jamaican sugar plantation, depicted in 1820-1821 via Wikimedia Commons

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‍The Obscured History of Jamaica's Maroon Societies - JSTOR Daily‍

‍Maroon Resistance (caribbean-atlas.com)‍

‍A New Discovery Puts Panama as the Site of the First Successful Slave Rebellion | History| Smithsonian Magazine

‍Maroon Tribes and Indigenous Peoples in Suriname (arcgis.com)

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‍What do you know about Maroon communities? - YouTube‍

‍Underground Railroad Where? (arcgis.com)

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♫ Jamaica's Maroon Wars (iheart.com)

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Benkos Biohó: The Runaway Slave Who Established the First Free African Town in the Americas in 1599 - TalkAfricana

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Maroon Communities in the South

8/20/23

Week of:

August 20, 2023

Maroon Communities in the South

We have recently focused on self-emancipated communities, called maroons, in the Great Dismal Swamp along the Virginia-North Carolina border. This week we will look at similar communities in other Southern states.

Black Seminole War Leader Abraham (State Archives of Florida)

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Book TV: Sylviane Diouf, "Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons." - YouTube

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More Than A Runaway: Maroons In Louisiana | WWNO

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‍Maroons | South Carolina Encyclopedia (scencyclopedia.org)‍

‍The Black Maroons of Florida (1693-1850) • (blackpast.org)‍

‍Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans: Independence at Any Cost - Stop 8 of 9 on the Urban Slavery and Everyday Resistance tour | New Orleans Historical‍

‍Jean Saint Malo: The Man, Maroon, & Martyr (noirnnola.com)

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TAMPA BAY'S Secret HISTORY of BLACK RESISTANCE: The Angola Maroon Community of Bradenton, Florida. - YouTube

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The story of American Maroons with Timothy Lockley - YouTube

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FESTBK1992_28.pdf (si.edu)

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Slavery's exiles : the story of the American Maroons / | Arlington Public Library (arlingtonva.us)

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Moses Grandy

8/13/23

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August 13, 2023

Moses Grandy

Last week we learned about the Great Dismal Swamp as a place of refuge for self-emancipating enslaved people. This week learn about Moses Grandy, who became a proficient boatman in the swamp.

via Boston Public Library

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Moses Grandy Story & Great Dismal Swamp - YouTube

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‍A Life in Bondage: The Narrative of Moses Grandy | Beehive (masshist.org)‍

‍Grandy, Moses | NCpedia

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‍An Oral History Interview with Mr Eric Sheppard with Chris Lowie. Great Dismal Swamp. July 20, 2023. - YouTube ‍

NC Bookwatch | Bland Simpson, Two Captains from Carolina | Season 15 | Episode 1527 | PBS

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Narrative of the life of Moses Grandy : formerly a slave in the United States of America : Grandy, Moses, b. 1786? : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Resistance in the Great Dismal Swamp

8/6/23

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August 6, 2023

Resistance in the Great Dismal Swamp

Self-emancipating enslaved people along the Virginia--North Carolina border, and others, created a society in the Great Dismal Swamp that lasted for about two centuries. Learn more about this example of slave resistance in this week's resources.

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‍The secret society of the Great Dismal Swamp | Once described as uninhabitable, the Great Dismal Swamp was actually home to a secret society until the mid-19th century. So who lived there, and what... | By TED-Ed | Facebook‍

‍Inside the Historic Swamp Refuge for African-American Slaves - YouTube

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‍Great Dismal Swamp an irreplaceable hub of Black and Indigenous history | The Wilderness Society‍

‍Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp - Encyclopedia Virginia

‍‍Longfellow: The Slave in the Dismal Swamp, Poems on Slavery (hwlongfellow.org)

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Refuge in the Great Dismal Swamp - YouTube

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Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom | History| Smithsonian Magazine

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Encyclopedia Virginia's EntryPoint Presents: The Great Dismal Swamp: Past and Present - YouTube

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‍Dismal freedom : a history of the maroons of the Great Dismal... | Arlington Public Library (arlingtonva.us)‍

‍A desolate place for a defiant people : the archaeology of... | Arlington Public Library (arlingtonva.us)

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Anne Braden

7/30/23

Week of:

July 30, 2023

Anne Braden

Sometimes it is helpful to have a role model to provide inspiration and encouragement. Few of us have heard of Anne Braden, whose long involvement with civil rights spanned six decades. Learn about Anne and her husband Carl's arrest for transferring a house to a Black World War II veteran and watch six short videos of Anne explaining her journey from a child of the South to a lifetime of activism.

via crossculturalsolidarity.com

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‍Women’s History Month: The Legacy of Anne Braden (spectrumnews1.com)‍
‍Anne Braden - Veterans of Hope (six short videos)

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Anne Braden - YouTube

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‍Mission and Vision — Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research (louisville.edu)‍
‍Anne Braden - Americans Who Tell The Truth

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Anne Braden : southern patriot. | Arlington Public Library (arlingtonva.us)

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Black Freedom White Allies Red Scare | “The anti-communist hysteria and the anti-black hysteria were all wrapped up in a ball and hurled at us.” -Anne Braden

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‍The Life of Anne Braden, Part One: Finding Her Way to the Movement - Cross Cultural Solidarity ‍
The Life of Anne Braden, Part Two: a Life in the Movement - Cross Cultural Solidarity

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Anne Braden | Living the Story: The Rest of the Story (ket.org)

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Black Medical Education

7/23/23

Week of:

July 23, 2023

Black Medical Education

Imagine if a consultant concluded that Black doctors had little to contribute and their main function would be to keep illnesses affecting Black people from infecting White people. This was a conclusion in the 1910 Flexner Report, which in some ways improved medical education in the United States but contributed to five of seven Black medical schools being closed.

via U.S. National Library of Medicine

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‍Once, there were 19 black medical schools in the U.S. Now there are 4. What happened? | localmemphis.com

‍Examining the American Medical Association’s racist history and its overdue reckoning | PBS NewsHour

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‍The 1910 Report That Disadvantaged Minority Doctors - JSTOR Daily‍

‍Education - Black History Month: A Medical Perspective - LibGuides at Duke University Medical Center‍

‍History - National Medical Association (nmanet.org)

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Listen: The report that curtailed Black medical education for over a century (statnews.com)

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‍Study Backs Flexner Report's Negative Impact on Black Physicians | MedPage Today‍

‍Exploring the AMA's History of Discrimination — ProPublica‍

‍The history of medical education: a commentary on race (degruyter.com)

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The Pacific Parachute Company

7/16/23

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July 16, 2023

The Pacific Parachute Company

What were the chances of a Black skydiver starting a successful company during World War II? Good, if you were Skippy Smith. Learn more about Smith, the Pacific Parachute Company, and its integrated workforce in this week's resources.

Government photographer Russell Lee documented operations at the Pacific Parachute Company to demonstrate the success of President Roosevelt’s anti-discrimination measure, Executive Order 8802, which is posted on the wall above these workers. via earchablemuseum.com/

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About San Diego: Parachute Acrobat's Journey To Starting A Unique Business - YouTube

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‍The Pacific Parachute Company | National Museum of African American History & Culture. (searchablemuseum.com)‍

‍ROCHESTER GOES TO WAR: Eddie Anderson and the Pacific Parachute Company (goldenageradio.com)

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PACIFIC PARACHUTE COMPANY - Home (weebly.com)

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Harry and Harriette Moore

7/9/23

Week of:

July 9, 2023

Harry and Harriette Moore

Many of us have not heard of Harry and Harriette Moore, early Florida civil rights activists, who were killed by a bomb in their home on Christmas night 1951. They are not literally unsung heroes, however, since Langston Hughes wrote a poem about them that was made into a song. Find both and more information about the Moores' groundwork for the civil rights movement in this week's resources.

https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/4512 Photo: Florida Memory Project

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‍Black History Month: Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore were Brevard County Civil Rights pioneers - YouTube ‍

Christmas 1951: Murder of a civil rights pioneer (Harry T. Moore) | The Lynching Sites Project of Memphis (lynchingsitesmem.org)‍

Sweet Honey In The Rock: Ballad Of Harry T. Moore (Democracy Now) - YouTube

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‍‘The Florida Terror’ Culminated In A Murderous Bombing Of The Moores | Very Real (oxygen.com)‍

‍"Ballad of Harry Moore" Poem by Langston Hughes (iloveancestry.com)‍

‍Dec. 25, 1951: Murder of Harriette and Harry Moore in Florida - Zinn Education Project (zinnedproject.org)

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Florida Frontiers | The Legacy of Harry T. Moore | Season 2 | Episode 117 | PB

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‍This Locket Memorializes a Black Activist Couple Murdered in a Christmas 1951 Bombing | At the Smithsonian| Smithsonian Magazine‍

‍Exclusive: A Quaker Was Noticed By the Florida Klan in 1951. It Didn’t Go Well. (But It Could Have Been Much Worse.) | A Friendly Letter‍

‍Civil Rights Leader Harry T. Moore and the Ku Klux Klan in Florida (ucf.edu)

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Evangeline Moore (on Harry T. Moore, Civil Rights, and Family) - YouTube

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