anti-lynching Videos

Documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. To buy or learn more about this DVD, visit: www.newsreel.org ... "California Newsreel" non-profit "Ida B. Wells" "Ida B. Wells-Barnett" "African American history" "American History" "African American journalist" "journalist activist" suffragist anti-lynching post-reconstruction "Toni Morrison" memoires "19th century" ...

Author: californianewsreel; Tags: California Newsreel non-profit Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells-Barnett African American history American History African American journalist journalist activist suffragist anti-lynching post-reconstruction Toni Morrison memoires 19th century racism sexism segregation William Greaves

Meeropol, a white, Jewish schoolteacher in New York, wrote "Strange Fruit" in 1938 and shared the piece with Billie Holiday. Popularized by Holiday, the song expresses the horror of lynchings in the Jim Crow South and was used as a weapon in anti-lynching campaigns. "Strange Fruit" has haunting chords, a diminishing heartbeat, and juxtaposes the pastoral scenery of the South with the ugliness of racist violence. ... "Strange Fruit" "Billie Holiday" "Stanford Talisman" "a cappella" "African ...

Author: stanfordtalisman; Tags: Strange Fruit Billie Holiday Stanford Talisman a cappella African American music American South lynching Jim Crow Abel Meeropol Woyaya

Meeropol, a white, Jewish schoolteacher in New York, wrote "Strange Fruit" in 1938 and shared the piece with Billie Holiday. Popularized by Holiday, the song expresses the horror of lynchings in the Jim Crow South and was used as a weapon in anti-lynching campaigns. "Strange Fruit" has haunting chords, a diminishing heartbeat, and juxtaposes the pastoral scenery of the South with the ugliness of racist violence. ... "Strange Fruit" "Billie Holiday" "Stanford Talisman" "a cappella" "African ...

Author: stanfordtalisman; Tags: Strange Fruit Billie Holiday Stanford Talisman a cappella African American music American South lynching Jim Crow Abel Meeropol Woyaya

historical arc forward to the 1980s and back to the antebellum era and John Browns anti-slavery revolt. She had also focused in on the labor and anti-lynching themes. With the advent of organized labor in the 19th century, union leaders were often prosecuted for their activism, Hill says. The same period saw the advent of anti-lynching campaigns. Between 1877 and 1920, more than 3000 African-Americans were lynched in the South. In her book, Hill asks—and attempts to answer—the question, ...

Author: CUNYBMCC; Tags: BMCC CUNY

many years. We treat an act of violence more seriously if the intent is to deny someone his or her civil rights. The only question this bill presents to Members is whether we believe people assaulted violently because of their identity deserve Federal protection. For many years Congress refused to adopt anti lynching laws. Those were not proud times in our Nation's history. We now have the opportunity to do the right thing. I hope we do. ... "Hate Crimes" "Civil Rights" "Matthew Shepard" "HR ...

Author: CongressmanNadler; Tags: Hate Crimes Civil Rights Matthew Shepard HR 1913

Pamela Means performs the anti-lynching song made famous by Billie Holiday, but written by Abel Meeropol who along with his wife, Ann, adopted the orphaned sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg after their parents were executed. Introduced by Angela Davis. From the Rosenberg Fund for Children's "Celebrate the Children of Resistance" event, Boston, MA, June 19, 2007. www.rfc.org

Author: wwwrfcorg; Tags: Pamela Means lynching death penalty Abel Meeropol Angela Davis

Ida B. Wells, a passionate, fiery champion of equality for women and black Americans. The daughter of freed slaves, Wells was a newspaper editor and publisher, co-founder of the NAACP, mother, wife, and the single most powerful leader in the anti-lynching campaign in America. Her outspoken nature, tenacious spirit and refusal to assimilate are portrayed in the life of this often overlooked African American leader in this production interspersed with classic Negro spirituals. ...

Author: EnsembleHouston; Tags: Constant Star

allowed to see Excepting if they were a janitor, in 1918, Here is where men argued the extents and the restraints On the oppresion and the terror That the communities of her ancestors would receive, Where in abstract the political dangers Of anti-lynching laws were bounced back and forth, Where enforcement of justice Was weighed against elections, and the former discarded to the expediency of the day. This desk where 150 years Of patriarchs and magnates who could never conceive The young ...

Author: Devinul; Tags: Poetry

From 1882-1968, 4743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3446 were black. Many of the whites lynched were lynched for helping the black or being anti lynching... "Strange Fruit" began as a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish high-school teacher from the Bronx, about the lynching of two black men.

Author: diboan; Tags: aaron strange fruit lynchage lynching noir black lyrics billie holiday

The anti-lynching poem "Strange Fruit" was written by Abel Meeropol (1903 - 1986), a Jewish high-school teacher from the Bronx best known under his pseudonym Lewis Allan. He subsequently set the poem to music; it was famously performed by Billie Holiday. Meeropol wrote "Strange Fruit" to express his horror at lynchings after seeing a photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana. He published the poem in 1937 in The New York Teacher magazine. I was both ...

Author: Berniewahlbrinck; Tags: lewis allan abel meeropol lynching lynch mob civil rights wahlbrinck racism racial discrimination boss br 1200