[…] about anti-racist liberation movements in other countries, they decided in 1971 to name their group the Israeli Black Panther Party (IBPP). They used the Panthers’ well-recognized name to “make the government take this group seriously,” and to draw national attention to the fact that Israeli discrimination […] … Read MoreIsraeli Black Panther Party (1971-1977)
Before 1941 about 4,000 black soldiers (and a handful of African American officers) served in the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments (the “Buffalo Soldiers”), two of the all-black units formed after the Civil War. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the number of … Read More … Read MoreBlack Soldiers at Fort Huachuca, Arizona During World War II
View by Subject | View by Author | View Entire Bibliography This list is the contains all bibliographic subjects on the Blackpast.com tid)); $pole[]=Array (l($term->name, "taxonomy/term/$term->tid") . " ($count)", $term->depth, $count, $term->tid) ; } $depth =-1; foreach ($pole as $list) { if ($list[1] > $depth) … Read More … Read MoreBlackPast.org Comprehensive Bilbiography
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We have created a few timelines that explore the rich history of Blacks in the world. The timelines are filterable by year range, year, event keyword, and location. The African American History Visual Timeline explores the various things Blacks have done in the western hemisphere … Read More … Read MoreBlack Past Timelines
[…] the National Context (1968) Bobby Seale, Seize the Time (1968) Associated Students, University of Oregon, Which Side Are You On? The Black Panthers in Eugene (1969) Paul Bullock, ed, Watts, The Aftermath: An Inside View of the Ghetto, By the People of Watts (1969) […] … Read MoreAfrican American History in the West: Bibliography
In the speech below to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, on August 1, 1987, Clarence Thomas, then Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), makes the case that many African Americans have always embraced conservative values and thus their natural political home … Read More … Read More(1987) Clarence Thomas, “Why Black Americans Should Look to Conservative Politics”
In the 1971 Woody Allen film, “Bananas,” a fellow employee asks Allen’s character, “What would you have been if you finished school?” Allen’s character answers, “I was in the black studies program. By now I could have been black.” Allen’s attempted humorous jab at early … Read More … Read MoreWhat Can I Do with A Black Studies Major? Five Hundred Answers Provided by Robert Fikes, Jr.
In the article below historian Robin Dearmon Muhammad discusses the growth of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) or the Garvey Movement in the American West, with particular emphasis on its influence in black working-class organizing in the San Francisco Bay Area after World War … Read More … Read MoreGarveyism Looks Toward the Pacific: The UNIA and Black Workers in the American West
On Sunday, January 18, 1981, thirteen black youths attending a birthday party in Deptford, South London was killed in an alleged racially-motivated house fire. The New Cross Fire tragedy highlighted hostility between black Britons, the police and the media. On the night of the fire, … Read More … Read MoreThe New Cross Fire (January 18, 1981)
The Black Loyalists were the approximately 3,000 African American supporters of the British during the American Revolution who were repatriated to British Canada at the end of the conflict. Most settled in Nova Scotia and established what would be for decades, the largest concentration of … Read More … Read MoreBlack Loyalists Exodus to Nova Scotia (1783)
