Juvenile convicts at work in the fields in Southern chain gang. Southern jails made money leasing convicts for forced labor in the Jim Crow South. Circa. 1903
Free In Name Only
The Civil War is over. And the question remains, what to do with 200,000 largely illiterate, profoundly ignorant to the ways of the world, landless, moneyless, and homeless population? Hello? Anybody? Don’t all raise your hands all at once? After …
The Great Migration “We Gettin’ Da @#$% Outta Here”
In 1889, Jim Crow began in the South, kicking off a campaign of unconstrained textbook terrorism that would last until 1965. 85% of all lynching’s that occurred in the United States occurred south of the Mason Dixon line. In 1892 …
Fool me once…
When the grandchildren of enslaved Africans returned home from Europe after fighting World War I, they returned with the hope that after serving honorably, their own country would appreciate their bravery and sacrifice and see to it that their own …