Pamela Smith Hudson is an African-American woman and Los Angeles-based mixed media artist whose artistic practice includes encaustic painting, ceramics and experimental printmaking Continue reading Profile: Pamela Smith Hudson (1963-)
The 1896 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson made segregationist laws permissible anywhere in the United States as long as railroads, streetcars, and other public conveyances provided equal accommodations for blacks and whites. The decision, which served as the constitutional underpinning for the nation’s Jim Crow system, was resisted by black civil rights leaders across the United States. One example of resistance emerged in Nashville, Tennessee. Continue reading Revisit: NASHVILLE STREETCAR BOYCOTT
The 1966 Dayton, Ohio Uprising began on September 1, 1966, after the murder of African American Lester Mitchell by an unknown white assailant. Mitchell was sweeping the sidewalk in front of his bar at 3:00 a.m. when, according to witnesses, a red car pulled up to Mitchell, and a white man shot Mitchell in the face with a shotgun. Witness accounts vary regarding whether it was a single white man or a group. According to one witness, Tommy Campbell, all he saw was “the red (of the car), and the barrel of the gun… All I could tell was they were white men.” Mitchell was taken to the hospital, later dying from his wounds Continue reading Revisit: THE DAYTON OHIO UPRISING
The National Association of the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) Silent Protest Parade, also known as the Silent March, took place on 5th Avenue in New York City, New York on Saturday, July 28, 1917. This protest was a response to violence against African Americans, including the race riots, lynching, and outrages in Texas, Tennessee, Illinois, and other states. Continue reading Revisit: NEW YORK CITY NAACP SILENT PROTEST PARADE
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