The Freedwomen's Bureau

Mar 30

From the Swann Galleries catalogue for their recent “Printed and Manuscript African Americana” auction. (Estimated at $1,500-$2,500, the photo sold for $10K) “A group photograph of the nine Scottsboro Boys with their attorneys Juanita E. Jackson, and Laura Kellum, sent by the NAACP to assure the boys that they would not be abandoned. Jackson was the first African-American woman to pass the bar in the state of Maryland. This photo was taken by a Crisis Magazine photographer and appeared in the pages of the January 1937 issue.”

From the Swann Galleries catalogue for their recent “Printed and Manuscript African Americana” auction. (Estimated at $1,500-$2,500, the photo sold for $10K)

“A group photograph of the nine Scottsboro Boys with their attorneys Juanita E. Jackson, and Laura Kellum, sent by the NAACP to assure the boys that they would not be abandoned. Jackson was the first African-American woman to pass the bar in the state of Maryland. This photo was taken by a Crisis Magazine photographer and appeared in the pages of the January 1937 issue.”

Mar 21

reading list: everything on the website HISTORY IS A WEAPON

Mar 17

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Mar 15

Freedwoman Pamela Broom, steward of Sun Harvest Kitchen Garden in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans and founder of the Women and Agriculture Network: “Feeding communities. Cultivating beauty. Nurturing lives”

Freedwoman Pamela Broom, steward of Sun Harvest Kitchen Garden in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans and founder of the Women and Agriculture Network: “Feeding communities. Cultivating beauty. Nurturing lives”

Mar 08

"Revolution, as the possession of the man who throws his life towards an idea, is the highest spirit of mysticism." GLAUBER ROCHA, "The Aesthetics of Dreams"

Mar 01

the book about how organized resistance to sexual terrorism led to the modern civil-rights movement is very high on my to-read list: check out this NPR interview about THE DARK END OF THE STREET: BLACK WOMEN, RAPE & RESISTANCE, A NEW HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT FROM ROSA PARKS TO BLACK POWER

the book about how organized resistance to sexual terrorism led to the modern civil-rights movement is very high on my to-read list: check out this NPR interview about THE DARK END OF THE STREET: BLACK WOMEN, RAPE & RESISTANCE, A NEW HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT FROM ROSA PARKS TO BLACK POWER

Feb 25

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Feb 24

we who believe in freedom (truly) cannot rest

the theaters of this war are multiple. today’s news from the front: This billboard has been on display in NYC’s SoHo, maligning any and everybody that came into the earth by way of a black woman’s uterus. Thanks to the efforts of impassioned citizens, this hate speech will not stand.

Elsewhere, an issue we already know too much about was thrown into desperate relief by a startling analogy: The NYPD Stopped Enough Black Men Last Year to Populate Wyoming

Feb 22

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Feb 21

february 21, 1965

february 21, 1965