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Share and reflect on these powerful, inspiring Juneteenth quotes and messages from Black politicians, activists, authors, and artists for the June 19 holiday.
Although the Emancipation Proclamation declared that all enslaved people should be free in 1863, there were still enslaved people in many states awaiting their freedom. On June 19, 1865, Texas ...
50 inspirational quotes from U.S. presidents ... and intolerance, and slavery, and war.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt ... true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human ...
Better dead than Red – anti-Communist slogan; Black is beautiful – political slogan of a cultural movement that began in the 1960s by African Americans; Black Lives Matter – decentralized social movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin; popularized in the United States following 2014 protests in ...
Elizabeth Freeman (c. 1744 – December 28, 1829), also known as Mumbet, [a] was one of the first enslaved African Americans to file and win a freedom suit in Massachusetts.The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling, in Freeman's favor, found slavery to be inconsistent with the 1780 Constitution of Massachusetts.
Born to a free black mother and a white father, he was nevertheless made a slave at the age of 10, and remained illiterate until the age of 17. He judicially won his own freedom and began to work as a lawyer on behalf of the captives, and by the age of 29 he was already an established author and considered "the greatest abolitionist in Brazil ...
As Rankin helped anti-slavery societies sprout throughout Ohio, anti-abolitionist mobs were never far behind. Throughout the 1830s, Rankin became closely familiar with the political violence that ...
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information war poster (1941–1945). "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. [1]