gradientlair:

sonofbaldwin:

#KnowYourHistory

You would get banned on Facebook for posting this photo. #FascistBook

THIS.

Interestingly, Facebook ignores multiple reports to take down photos like this:

(Source: ttysusa)

caliphorniaqueen:

“During the civil rights struggle, Birmingham canceled high school prom for many black teenagers. This weekend, the dance went on for the Class of 1963.”

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/19/living/civil-rights-prom/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

fivelettered:

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

New York City: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, veterans of the Stonewall Rebellion and founders of STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), march in the 1973 Pride Parade.

i think people do not really understand how POWERFUL these two were. in the early 70’s they became house mothers and revolutionaries for trans* people, especially TWOC.

and now they barely get a blurb because they weren’t nice to their oppressors and called their shit out and weren’t “nice t-words” like how cis gay white men wanna think of people like Christine Jorgensen or others. They didn’t want to be erased and shut up. They didn’t wanna sit in jail and wait for motherfuckers to help them in patronizing, erasing ways. They didn’t shut up about the violence against them.

just like…fuck anyone who doesn’t think they’re awesome. They inspire me everyday to get up and kick ass, even as a cis woman of color. 

Bolded all of this because these women have got to be two of the most unsung heroines of history.

It is fucking criminal that so many people don’t know who they are. If you are Queer in any capacity (or shit, even if you aren’t, because they were standing up for the oppressed as a whole) you owe it to yourself to know and honor these amazing women.

pharaohhearts:

clintisiceman:

Gloria Richardson pushes a national guard bayonet out of her face during a 1963 civil rights protest in Maryland.

Flawless expression.

fuckyeahfeminists:

“As for white America, perhaps it can stop crying out against ‘black supremacy,’ ‘black nationalism,’ ‘racism in reverse,’ and begin facing reality. The reality is that this nation, from top to bottom, is racist.”

—

From “What We Want” by Stokely Carmichael in 1966.

This was 45 years ago. Why the FUCK is this still so relevant? 

(via lesbianese)

I like to think of myself as a pretty schooled in history generally, but somehow I was unaware that the term “racism in reverse” was used so early. If that doesn’t say something about the term, I don’t know what does.

Something tells me it existed since slavery was outlawed.

todaysdocument:

“I respectfully remind you sir, that we have been the most patient of all people.”

-Letter from Jackie Robinson to President Eisenhower of May 13, 1958

After he retired from Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson went on to champion the cause of civil rights from his position as a prominent executive of the Chock Full o’Nuts Corporation.

Robinson had grown increasingly impatient with what he regarded as President Eisenhower’s failure to act decisively in combating racism. In this letter dated May 13, 1958, he expresses his frustration and calls upon the President to finally guarantee Federal support of black civil rights.

Read more at Featured Documents…

thechanelmuse:

Photos that speak: Fuck your fountain. Fuck your tree. Fuck voter suppression. Fuck your labels. Fuck your stereotypes. Fuck your hatred. Fuck your restaurants. Fuck that dude. Fuck police brutality. Fuck white supremacy. 

soulbrotherv2:

Ever get the feeling that you are not really welcome someplace?

An African American and a white girl study a sign in the integrated Long Island community of Lakeview, New York, on April 1962. It reads “Negroes! This community could become another ghetto. You owe it to your ‘family’ to buy in another community.” The sign was an attempt to keep African Americans from exceeding the number of whites who want to live in an integrated town. (AP Photo)

Lest we forget, the North is not exactly a boon of harmony and equality.

magdolenelives:

Men hold a “Black Gays Unite” banner at the Los Angeles Christopher Street West pride parade, 1975.
Photo courtesy ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives Photograph Collection.

Bringing this back around. I highly suggest perusing their collection; it’s amazing stuff.

vintageblackglamour:

Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis compare notes, and the tools of their respective trades, on June 14, 1946 during Mr. Robinson’s visit to Mr. Louis’s training camp in Pompton Lake, New Jersey. It was 66 years ago today, on April 15, 1947, that Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball to play with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Photo: Bettman/Corbis.