Mary Turner! At Just 21 Years Old & 8 Months Pregnant She Was Lynched By A White Mob Simply For Demanding Justice https://shinemycrown.com/mary-turner-a-just-21-years-old-8-months-pregnant-she-was-lynched-by-a-white-mob-simply-for-demanding-justice/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MaryTurner #Lynching #RacialJustice #History #BlackHistory

(No CW because that seems counterproductive to discussing shame.)

Finished up On the Media’s latest episode on the drive into town and started balling in the parking lot. Late in the episode, Bryan Stevenson recounts a story of a Black woman collecting soil from the site of a lynching, then a white man passes in a truck, circles back, and approaches her.

It was powerful and personal, reminded me how much shame many of us carry for the deeds of our distant ancestors and our parents/grandparents. In some ways, it’s understandable how white America glosses over or covers it with “Pride”—it’s easier to continue than admit it. Like any shame, facing it is *painful* and ugly.

#racism #lynching #WhiteAmerica

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/brendan-carrs-fcc-has-been-busy-plus-rewriting-the-history-of-watergate

In 1920 the NAACP began flying a flag from the windows of its headquarters at 69 Fifth Avenue when a lynching occurred. The words on the flag were “a man was lynched yesterday.”

The threat of losing its lease forced the NAACP to discontinue the practice in 1938.

#naacp #history #photography #blackhistory #ushistory #BlackMastodon #lynching

As Jones' reminder that his own book White Too Long has been censored by the Trump regime calls us to see, there's a huge push to obliterate the real history of the US when it's deeply unflattering — to white supremacists and white Christian nationalists. If you want to delve into that real history vis-a-vis the sordid story of lynching, a valuable resource is the book Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.

#churches #WhiteSupremacy #racism #lynching
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https://withoutsanctuary.org/main.html

(continued from /1) "I tell the story of white Christians in Atlanta streaming straight from church services to board special trains to take them to participate in the man hunt and lynching of Sam Hose (born Samuel Thomas Wilkes) in nearby Newnan, which took place on April 23, 1899, two years to the day after the lynching of Joseph McCoy."

#churches #WhiteSupremacy #racism #lynching
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"[The] proximity of white churchgoing and lynching was common throughout the U.S. In my book, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, (which has now been banned by the government at the US Naval Academy)," (continued in /2)

~ Robert P. Jones

#churches #WhiteSupremacy #racism #lynching
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/between-history-and-hope-remarks

Today in Labor History April 14, 1917: IWW sailors went on strike in Philadelphia and won a ten dollar per month raise. Ben Fletcher, an African-American IWW organizer, was instrumental in organizing the Philadelphia waterfront. Fletcher was born in Philly in 1890. He joined the Wobblies (IWW) in 1912, became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913.

In 1913, Fletcher led 10,000 IWW Philly dockworkers on a strike. Within two weeks, they won a 10-hr day, overtime pay, & created one of the most successful antiracist, anticapitalist union locals in the U.S. At the time, roughly one-third of the dockers on the Philadelphia waterfront were black. Another 33% were Irish. And about 33% were Polish and Lithuanian. Prior to the IWW organizing drive, the employers routinely pitted black workers against white, and Polish against Irish. The IWW was one of the only unions of the era that organized workers into the same locals, regardless of race or ethnicity. And its main leader in Philadelphia was an African American, Ben Fletcher.

By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the union maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color.

Fletcher also traveled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. And in 1918, the state arrested him, sentencing him to ten years for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years.

You can read my full biography of Ben Fletcher here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/05/13/ben-fletcher-and-the-iww-dockers/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #benfletcher #racism #africanamerican #philadelphia #longshore #lynching #BlackMastadon

#OTD in 2019, #NewOrleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell delivered an official proclamation of apology for the 1891 #lynching of eleven Italian-American prisoners held at Orleans Parish Prison.

Read about it:
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2019/04/nola-mayor-to-offer-apology-for-1891.html

#Histodons

Today In Labor History April 7, 1915: Jazz legend, Billie Holiday, was born. She was one of the first to sing Abel Meeropol’s, “Strange Fruit,” and performed the most well-known version of the anti-lynching song. Soon after her first public performance of the song, in 1939, the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics started gunning for her. Harry Anslinger, who was a racist, prohibition zealot, led the assault. He hired a black agent provocateur, Jimmy Fletcher, to befriend her and sell her drugs. And Fletcher conducted her first drug bust.
https://youtu.be/-DGY9HvChXk

#workingclass #LaborHistory #jazz #billieholiday #strangefruit #racism #addiction #drugs #lynching #prison

Today in Labor History March 25, 1931: The authorities arrested the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama and charged them with rape. The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American youths, ages 13 to 20, falsely accused of raping two white women. A lynch mob tried to murder them before they had even been indicted. All-white juries convicted each of them. Several judges gave death sentences, a common practice in Alabama at the time for black men convicted of raping white women. The Communist Party and the NAACP fought to get the cases appealed and retried. Finally, after numerous retrials and years in harsh prisons, four of the Scottsboro Boys were acquitted and released. The other five were got sentences ranging from 75 years to death. All were released or escaped by 1946. Poet and playwright Langston Hughes wrote it in his work Scottsboro Limited. And Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son was influenced by the case.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #scottsboroboys #racism #lynching #rape #prison #langstonhughes #richardwright #novel #naacp #communism #books #author #writer #fiction #alabama #BlackMastadon @bookstadon

Ist das schon in den Nachrichten in Deutschland?
#Lynching #Israel #illegalsettlements #nootherland

RE: https://mastodon.social/@smaurizi/114219158980563247

Today in Labor History March 15, 1877: Ben Fletcher, African-American IWW organizer was born on this date. Fletcher organized longshoremen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He joined the Wobblies (IWW) in 1912, became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913. By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the union maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. After the 1913 strike, Fletcher traveled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color. In 1918, the state arrested him, sentencing him to ten years for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #BenFletcher #racism #AfricanAmerican #lynching #prison #union #strike #wobblies #longshore #philadelphia #BlackMastadon

Today in Labor History March 9, 1911: Frank Little and other free-speech fighters were released from jail in Fresno, California, where they had been fighting for the right to speak to and organize workers on public streets. Little was a Cherokee miner and IWW union organizer. He helped organize oil workers, timber workers and migrant farm workers in California. He participated in free speech fights in Missoula, Spokane and Fresno, and helped pioneer many of the passive resistance techniques later used by the Civil Rights movement. He was also an anti-war activist, calling U.S. soldiers “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniforms.” 1917, he helped organize the Speculator Mine strike in Butte, Montana. Vigilantes broke into his boarding house, dragged him through the streets while tied to the back of a car, and then lynched him from a railroad trestle. Prior to Little’s assassination, Author Dashiell Hammett had been asked by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to murder him. Hammett declined.

Read my full bio of Frank Little here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #freespeech #indigenous #nativeamerican #cherokee #franklittle #civilrights #nonviolence #racism #vigilantes #lynching #author #writer #fiction #books @bookstadon

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“#Whitesupremacists and other #antisemites have long used conspiracy theories about the Leo Frank case to cast doubt on the circumstances of the #antisemitic #lynching of Leo Frank,” an ADL spokesperson said in a statement to the Guardian. “We are deeply disturbed that any public official would parrot these hateful and false conspiracy theories, and we hope Kingsley Wilson will immediately retract her remarks.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/kingsley-wilson-pentagon-leo-frank

#USpolitics #Lynching

"This flag helped end lynching in the U.S." [3:51 min]
by AmericanExperiencePBS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-4Fbb5lR3c

Quote by AEPBS:
"Feb 6, 2025
How did a flag on the streets of Manhattan help end lynching in the United States?
FORGOTTEN HERO: WALTER WHITE AND THE NAACP premieres February 25 at 9/8c on @pbs, YouTube, and the PBS App."

#USbeware
#FascistsAreHere
#WorkersUnite #UnionStrong

Today in Labor History February 11, 1953: Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denied all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The government executed them at Sing Sing in 1953. They had been convicted of espionage for the USSR. Their sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol (adopted by Abel Merepol, composer of the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit,”), maintained their parents’ innocence. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union, decoded Soviet cables showed that their father had collaborated. They continued to fight for the mother’s pardon, but Obama refused to grant it.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #rosenbergs #espionage #deathpenalty #execution #ussr #soviet #communism #prison #coldwar #obama #eisenhower #StrangeFruit #racism #lynching

Today, in honor of Black History Month, we celebrate the life of Hubert Henry Harrison (April 27, 1883 – December 17, 1927), a West Indian-American writer, speaker, educator, political activist based in Harlem, New York. He was described by union leader A. Philip Randolph as the father of Harlem radicalism and by John G. Jackson as "The Black Socrates." Harrison’s activism encouraged the development of class consciousness among workers, black pride, secular humanism, social progressivism, and free thought. He denounced the Bible as a slave master's book, and said that black Christians needed their heads examined. He refused to exalt a "lily white God " and "Jim Crow Jesus," and criticized Churches for pushing racism, superstition, ignorance and poverty. Religious extremists were known to riot at his lectures. At one of his events, he attacked and chased off an extremist who had attacked him with a crowbar.

In the early 1910s, Harrison became a full-time organizer with the Socialist Party of America. He lectured widely against capitalism, founded the Colored Socialist Club, and campaigned for Eugene V. Debs’s 1912 bid for president of the U.S. However, his politics moved further to the left than the mainstream of the Socialist Party, and he withdrew in 1914. He was also a big supporter of the IWW, speaking at the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike, and supporting the IWW’s advocacy of direct action and sabotage. In 1914, he began working with the anarchist-influenced Modern School movement (started by the martyred educator Francisco Ferrer). During World War I, he founded the Liberty League and the “Voice: A Newspaper for the New Negro,” as radical alternatives to the NAACP. The Liberty League advocated internationalism, class and race consciousness, full racial equality, federal anti-lynching legislation, enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, labor organizing, support for socialist and anti-imperialist causes, and armed self-defense.

You can learn more about the Modern School Movement here: https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/411-spring-2022/the-modern-school-movement/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #HubertHenryHarrison #blackhistorymonth #Revolution #communism #socialism #anarchism #IWW #union #strike #racism #lynching #birthcontrol #harlem #slavery #jimcrow #author #writer #nonfiction #books #BlackMastadon @bookstadon

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells
#IdaBWells #Journalism #Lynching #NAACP