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Today in Labor History December 5, 1955: E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott lasted until December 20, 1956, when the Supreme Court ruled that the Alabama and Montgomery bus segregation laws were unconstitutional.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #rosaparks #racism #jimcrow #alabama #boycott #segregation #SCOTUS #BlackMastodon

Rosa Parks in 1955, with Martin Luther King Jr. in the background. She is wearing wire-rimmed glasses, a striped shirt and vest. By Unknown author - USIA / National Archives and Records Administration Records of the U.S. Information Agency Record Group 306, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4344206

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1955, #RosaParks was arrested in #Montgomery, #Alabama, for refusing to cede her bus seat to a white person. This was no accident: Parks was a long-time #antiracist activist; her act was to launch the #MontgomeryBusBoycott and break #JimCrow #segregation.

Today in Labor History December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks, a 43-year-old African-American seamstress, refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The authorities arrested her, triggering a year-long boycott of the city bus system. It also led to legal actions which ended racial segregation on municipal buses throughout the south.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #rosaparks #bus #boycott #segregation #jimcrow #civilrights #equalrights #racism #blm #BlackMastodon

Booking photo of Parks following her February 1956 arrest during the Montgomery bus boycott. By Alabama Department of Archives and History -- https://web.archive.org/web/20090316173821/http://www.archives.alabama.gov/mugshots/page76.pdf, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11440811

“While they are not advocating the outright #racial #apartheid of the #JimCrow era, they are embracing the #discriminatory logic that made it possible” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...

America’s New Jim Crow

RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/u.s.-news-lhl4uphvz/-/a-ddHxO8rCRy6AY-PDRqtXpA%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

Jackass is out to steal an election.

#election
#NorthCarolina
#NCpol
The New #JimCrow
#racism
#discrimination

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1865, #Mississippi passed an early version of a #BlackCode, requiring African Americans to be employed by a white person, punishing vagrancy with gaol time and hence reënslavement, and forbidding black people from changing jobs. The #JimCrow era had begun.

Today in Labor History November 22, 1919: The Bogalusa labor massacre occurred in Louisiana, when a posse of company thugs and white vigilantes, working for the Great Southern Lumber Company, attacked a group of white and black lumber workers and carpenters. The attack occurred after Sol Dacus, head of the newly formed union of Black Loggers, narrowly escaped a lynching by white vigilantes hired by local business owners. He was being escorted by two white union carpenters, armed with shotguns to protect him. While many white union men in the south embraced Jim Crow, the loggers and carpenters showed class solidarity and risked their lives for each other.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #racism #jimcrow #vigilantes #lynching #union
#BlackMastodon

Night time shot of the Great Southern Lumber Company at Bogalusa. By Uncredited - postcard via [1]Also seen at [2], confirming PD status., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27341585

"Duncan, who recalls that it took years for incarcerated people to get access to basic court documents, says he sought the clerk position to ensure fair treatment for all and that records are treated with greater care and respect."
https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-clerk-calvin-duncan-dc0ca1c86bcc313b4e5af43ed623fa15
#GoodNews #NewOrleans #courts #JimCrow

In 1892 on #ThisDayInHistory, a #GeneralStrike shut down the city of #NewOrleans. The #strike began with three integrated unions, and other #unions joined later. Despite appeals to #racism, worker #solidarity held and they won. #JimCrow propaganda increased to prevent recurrence.

This privileged clown has never bought anything in a grocery store or at a petrol station. Defending #VoterID in this transparently false way underlines the fraud behind the concept. It is a #classist and #racist throwback to the #JimCrow era, meant to hurt minorities.

I missed this a few years ago. I regularly lecture about Homer Plessy and his work in 1892 to fight racial segregation in the American South. His work backfired when the Supreme Court immortalized him with their disastrous Plessy v Ferguson decision enshrining racial segregation as constitutional. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59888947 #segregation #CivilRights #JimCrow #PlessyVFerguson #HomerPlessy #SCOTUS

Today in Labor History October 4, 1887: 10,000 Louisiana sugarcane workers went on strike with the Knights of Labor over terrible living and working conditions. Many of the striking workers were bound to the plantations in a status similar to slavery, due to debts they owed the overpriced Company Store, which accepted no cash and only scrip. Bosses would also withhold up to 80% of the workers’ pay until the end of the growing season to ensure that no one quit early. On November 23, the Louisiana Militia, aided by white vigilantes, murdered 60 unarmed black workers during the Thibodaux Massacre. Hundreds were injured, murdered or went missing, including women and children. The massacre ended the strike and any effective effort to organize black cane workers until the 1940s. Democrats in the state passed a series of laws in the wake of the strike that disenfranchised black voters and enforced segregation and Jim Crow.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #knightsoflabor #union #strike #racism #louisiana #jimcrow #massacre #segregation #vigilante #BlackMastadon

Louisiana sugar cane laborers c. 1880. By William Henry Jackson - Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Possibly Baton Rouge; cf. negatives D418-8131 to 8133. "7435" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 08135. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22828998

#JimCrow 2.0 Is Becoming Reality, But True #History Can’t Be Erased

https://wordinblack.com/2025/09/jim-crow-2-0-reality-history-cant-be-erased/

For instance, Kirk had claimed that 4 prominent & successful #BlackWomen, who all went to Ivy League universities — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the fmr first lady Michelle Obama, the TV host Joy-Ann Reid & fmr Rep Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas — did not “have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously” & had to “go steal a white person’s slot.” He’d argued that “Black America is poorer, more murderous, more dangerous” than when #Black people were living under #JimCrow.

These #CivilRights #Legends From #JimCrow Are Still With Us …So Remember Their Names!

https://www.theroot.com/these-civil-rights-legends-from-jim-crow-are-still-with-2000063916

#BLM #BlackHistory

#ShitIFind #IrishSlaves #AmericanHistory #Racism #Bigotry #Slavery #BlackHistory #Democrats #Republicans #NOTICE #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #40acres #JimCrow #DredScott #CivilRights

Ammunition for those people still throwing around the "Irish Slaves" mythology.

"Indentured servitude and slavery were two completely different legal and social institutions--independently horrific without falsely equating them."

NOTICE:
If you came here to say that the Irish were enslaved, your post will be declined.
Enslavement was LEGALLY confined to persons of African descent (determined by the mother's racial status).
Indentured servitude and slavery were two completely different legal and social institutions--independently horrific without falsely equating them.
Slavery was a lot more than involuntary servitude. Enslaved persons, their children, their children, etc., were slaves. They were property. They had no rights whatsoever, as determined by Dred Scott. They could not inherit or be taught how to read or write.
The Irish were not Jim Crowed and systematically lynched after the Civil War.
Other groups have been mistreated and deserve protection. Do you care about migrants, Native Americans, LGBTQ people -- or just 19th century Irish?

ALSO:
If you came here to comment on Democrats and slavery, save it. That too will be declined.
The Republican Party was created by anti-slavery Democrats and Whigs. There was no preexisting Republican Party. Again, it was created by Dems and Whigs.
Also, that was the 19th century. At the time, Republicans were only northerners and southern Blacks. Southern whites switched sides after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (actually starting a bit earlier -- after Truman's civil rights efforts). Save your lies for data-free boards.

Now, back to the post......
White supremacists keep posting material claiming that only 1.6% of Americans owned slaves or that only 1% of Americans were slaves. This is RIDICULOUS foolishness trying to discount the impact of slavery.
Here are some stats white supremacists ignore:
100% of slaves were BLACK
90% of Blacks were SLAVES.
0% of Whites were SLAVES
100% of Blacks--whether they were slaves or not--had NO RIGHTS and were not considered US citizens.
To the "My ancestors didn't own slaves" crowd:
Your ancestors were NOT slaves either.
This means a lot. It's called privilege.
Not having slave ancestors is privilege.
PS: For the "what about the Irish" folks: Blacks did not stage bloodbath riots against the Irish to prove that they were really "White" (try to follow along).
Google:
The Draft Riots (NYC) 1863
Philadelphia Riots of 1834, 1842, and 1871
Cincinnati Riots of 1829 and 1841 (just to name a few involving Irish and other working-class Whites engaging in mob violence against Blacks).

16 heinous quotes from anti-LGBTQ+ white supremacist Nick Fuentes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/nick-fuentes-lgbtq-holocaust-quotes

Republican hypocrisy—convenient reason to go after political opponents and marginalized groups

#uspol #politics #CharlieKirk #CharlieKirk #CharlieKirkKilling #CharlieKirkMurder #CharlieKirkShot #CharlieKirkAssassination #UtahValleyUniversityShooting #MAGA #CharlieKirkShooting #FreeSpeech #HateSpeech #FirstAmendment #CharliesMurderers #CharlieKirkDataFoundation #InvoluntaryEuthanasia #BIPoC #racism #RacialSegregation #JimCrow

Family guy skin color meme

Free speech:
– "Democrats and trans people are a terror organisation"
– "[Women of color] do not have the brain […] power to […] be taken […] seriously"
– "Homeless should be killed"

Hate speech:
– "I didn't like Charlie Kirk"

@mattsheffield
“If we hide our inhumanity & unholy actions from voters…
Maybe everyone will pretend they never happened…
Or will ever happen again…say evildoers.

They’re like scared children.

We cannot allow this to happen…again(see #jimcrow )

“This represents an enormous increase in fed power & control over the things we learn,” Zimmerman said. “Brought to you by the team that says education should be state & local.”
https://apple.news/A4VBVqkkjQCaRnwLd8ONmBA

#JimCrow

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