Today (March 25) In Black History 1. 1965 -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. along with other notable civil rights leaders and thousands of supporters reach Montgomery Alabama after marching 4 days from Selma. 2.Death of Ida B.Wells-Barnett-March 25, 1931 -July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931 born Holy Springs, Mississippi Slave parents, lost parents and 3 siblings to yellow fever at 14, Rust University and Fisk University, became teacher, refused to give up her seat for the colored section and sued railroad in 1880s, wrote articles, pen name Iola, led national campaign against lynching, her Memphis newspaper, office was mobbed and destroyed 1892, lectured and organized clubs, protested exclusion of Blacks from Worlds Columbian Exposition 1894, married lawyer, 4 children, founded Alpha Suffrage Club of Chicago with Black suffragists, marched in Washington, D.C. 1913 and Chicago 1916 suffrage parades, Chicago probation officer 1913-1916, ally of W.E.B. DuBois, felt NAACP was not outspoken enough. Biographical information excerpted from Women Win the Vote distributed by The National Womens History Project, 7738 Bell Road, Windsor, California, 95492-8518. 3.1931 - The Scottsboro Boys, nine young African Americans, were falsely charged with rape and collectively served more than 100 years in prison. The right of African Americans to serve on juries was established by their case. 4. 1910 - Liberian Commission recommended financial aid to Liberia and the establishment of a U.S. Navy coaling station in the African country. 5. 1887 - Samori, the builder of the Wasulu Empire, signs with the French the treaty of Bisnadugu. 6. 1871 - Kentucky Citizens file a petition challenging the violent acts of the kkk. The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s. Members adopted white costumes: robes, masks, and conical hats, designed to be outlandish and terrifying, and to hide their identities.[14] The second KKK flourished nationwide in the early and mid-1920s, and adopted the same costumes and code words as the first Klan, while introducing cross burnings.[15] The third KKK emerged after World War II and was associated with opposing the Civil Rights Movement and progress among minorities. The second and third incarnations of the Ku Klux Klan made frequent reference to the USAs Anglo-Saxon blood, harking back to 19th-century nativism and claiming descent from the original 18th-century British colonial revolutionaries.[16] 7. 1807-The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.The Slave Trade Act (citation 47 Geo III Sess. 1 c. 36) was an Act of Parliament made in the United Kingdom passed on 25 March 1807, with the title of An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. The original act is in the Parliamentary Archives. The act abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself. Many of the Bills supporters thought the Act would lead to the death of slavery. It was not until 26 years later that slavery itself was actually abolished.[1] Slavery on English soil was unsupported in English law and that position was confirmed in Somersets Case in 1772, but it remained legal in most of the British Empire until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. Todays Black History Quote Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobodys going to know whether you did it or not. Oprah Winfrey Know Your History, Know Yourself
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