I love Aaron Douglas’s art anyway. I love that the Harlem Renaissance artist started the Art Department at Nashville’s own Fisk University. But I particularly love the way he counterposed the skeletal hand of death with the white cuffed hand of business in “Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers”
Despite the Juneteenth declaration — 160 years ago this day in Galveston — that enslaved people were immediately emancipated, some White Texans continued to enslave Black folk through 1868, according to historian Gerald Horne. The US military provided scant protection to freedpeople and white Unionists — decreasing over time — while it committed the bulk of Federal troops instead to the frontier to conduct genocide against Indigenous Peoples.
Emancipation Park in Austin, #Texas was created so that African Americans could celebrate Emancipation Day (what came to be #Juneteenth) without resistance from whites; Austin condemned it aided by the #US Housing Authority for funds to build segregated public #housing but not upset southern #Democrats
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From “On #Juneteenth” by Annette Gordon-Reed.
#otd #history #war #Texas #uspol #uspolitics #politics
The orders issued #otd 160 years ago by General Granger after Federal troops landed in Galveston, as reported in a local paper. Note that freedom is absolutely announced at the beginning of the inaugural #Juneteenth document, but the ending leaves open the possibility for the infamous Black Codes.
#history #Texas
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“[#otd 1961] The nine Freedom Riders and five regular passengers sat frozen to their seats as the mob shouted for the Freedom Riders to come out. Some tried to force open the door. this brought the two Alabama state investigators out from undercover – they ran to the front of the bus and braced themselves against the pull lever, holding the door shut. Enraged, the [white] mob began pounding on the bus with pipes and slashing the tires …. [The driver] revved the engine and backed up. The numb, terror stricken passengers, watched Anniston policemen move in from positions on the fringe of the crowd to direct the bus out of town, as though they had suddenly awaken to a traffic problem.”
— Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters (1988)
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#Bluesky moderators are blocking these Al Jazeera images (and thus the link) when the link is posted on that platform.
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“CEO: UnitedHealth's approval ratings are in the dumps. We must take decisive action. Give me your best ideas.
General Counsel: We sue the widows of deceased cancer patients who we denied care to.
CEO: I like it. I like it.”
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