99-year-old Edith Edmunds said she would be spending her Juneteenth sewing as she celebrates the role quilts played in Black people’s path to freedom. These quilts often shared encoded messages for runaway enslaved people as they sought to make their way north along the Underground Railroad.
"There are records of people being whipped for celebrating and being threatened for celebrating. And even outside the context of celebrations, there was retaliation against the Freedmen [..] There was a lot of hope in the middle of a lot of hostility."
Historian #AnnetteGordonReed, author of #OnJuneteenth
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-19-2024/
#Juneteenth #OTD #EmancipationDay #Emancipation #BlackHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #TexasHistory #BlackTexas #books #LettersAndPolitics @bookstodon @histodons
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As a grad student at the College of Charleston, Lauren Davila found an ad for the auction of 600 enslaved people — the largest known slave auction in the U.S.
The discovery prompted a small group to spearhead the creation of a historical marker in downtown Charleston.
(Published Oct. 2024)
https://www.propublica.org/article/charleston-slave-auction-historical-marker?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Happy Juneteenth, USA!
Or, as the current White House knows it as, Thursday.
#usa #usapolitics #juneteenth #ushistory #Juneteenth2025 #trump #maga
The USA's history is littered with shameful moments and dark chapters — and in recent years, historical sites have begun to acknowledge this in their communications with visitors. That may be about to change. The Trump administration is now posting signs asking visitors to report historical information “negative about either past or living Americans," the Colorado Sun reports. Last Friday, signs went up at the Amache site where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II, and at the Sand Creek Massacre site where U.S. troops killed peaceful Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho people in 1865. “I interpret it as a direct threat to why we have national parks,” said Tracy Coppola, Colorado senior program manager for the southwest regional office of the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association. “Definitely a chilling effect on our park rangers, whose job is to tell the story of these places. The Park Service is not partisan, and they represent all of us.”
#Culture #History #USHistory @histodons #NationalParks #JapaneseAmerican #NativeAmerican #Indigenous #TrumpAdministration
"26,000 people died before (Reagan) even bothered to utter the word 'AIDS,'" Tim Sweeney, former executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) said in an interview for the GMHC Stories Oral History Project. @TheConversationUS takes a look at how organizations like GMHC advocated for and cared for each other when institutions failed them — and what we should learn from them now.
#USHistory #USNews #AIDSCrisis #AIDS #HIV #History #LGBTQ @histodons #Advocacy #Activism
"#Marx participated in the #1848revolutions in Prussia [...] Those #revolutions failed [...] Marx and many [exiles] ended up in London, but many of them ended up in the United States and they become known as the #48ers [...] they joined the Republican Party, they joined the #abolitionistMovement..."
#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #AndrewHartman, author of #KarlMarxInAmerica
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-16-2025/
#UShistory #USCivilWar #abolitionism #KarlMarx #AmericanMarxism #books @bookstodon @histodons
Today is #GeorgeStinneyJr Day.
If you don't know who George Stinney Jr. is, you don't know anything about segregation and discrimination in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stinney
https://eji.org/news/the-george-stinney-tragedy/
https://www.pbs.org/show/stinney-an-american-execution/
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/remembering-the-execution-of-14-year-old-george-stinney-80-years-later
@philip_cardella
#History #UShistory
The Origins of the Trumpean #GreatReplacementTheory (GRT) date back to the Third French Republic
The reason I asked, I once tracked down the origins of the likewise fascist #GRT + arrived at #MauriceBarrès and #CharlesMaurras who were the main thinkers of ethnic nationalism in the second half of the 19th century in #France.
I would like to see the connections, if any, b/w the #French and the #US precursors to #Fascism, if any