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Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen
ChoctawFreedmen
If @Deb4CongressNM does not change her position on Freedmen of the Five Tribes, she should immediately be disqualified from consideration for Secretary of Interior. Our rights are already under attack
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Adam Rothman
arothmanhistory
#GUhist286 103. Day 23. This class traces the revolutionary process of wartime emancipation. Here's a detailed chronology of key events from Lincoln's election to the ratification of the 13th Amendment...
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◥◤Infrastructure Weeknd
kristoncapps
The Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park was funded entirely by freedmen and women. They should have gone with Harriet Hosmer's design — which would have showed Abraham Lincoln flanked by
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Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen
ChoctawFreedmen
Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay! A reminder that there are many different groups of Black Native people within the United States and that often our ties to Indigenous Nations are through violence and
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Smithsonian NMAAHC
NMAAHC
To maintain segregation in the South, many white residents sought to make fear part of everyday life for African Americans. #APeoplesJourney Their tactics included physical violence, economic threats, and psychological
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Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen
ChoctawFreedmen
#FreedmenHistorySpotlightSaturday: Sarah RectorDid you know that the richest Black person in the world in 1915 was a 10-11 year old Creek Freedgirl? By 1915, Sarah Rector was worth over $25.5
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Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen
ChoctawFreedmen
This official Choctaw Nation supplemental guide for teaching about the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision is full of misinterpretations of the history, omits histories of Black people and Freedmen, and erases
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miriam
vientoxsol
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Today vientoxsol page is dedicated to celebrating and honoring Black Native, Black Indigenous, Afro-Indigenous loved ones (this is 24/7/365 on/off social media, just emphasizing today for
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Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen
ChoctawFreedmen
Oklahoma is the perfect example of race being a myth crafted to shift control of land and wealth into white communities. Because each individual Native person in the Five Tribes
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JamesHeartfield
JamesHeartfield
This guy is a descendant of the liberated slaves who paid for the emancipation monument-indeed he says his great-great grandfather is the man sculpted with Lincoln. This really would be
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David “HINDSIGHT IS 2021” Walsh
DavidAstinWalsh
This is quite literally how Italian liberals reconciled themselves to fascism. Interesting reading from the July 30, 1921 issue of the WASHINGTON TIMES. Conor, like Sully a week ago, would
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Chapps
chapps
Today is NYC Museums for #MuseumsUnlocked. Some selections from @metmuseum. A bronze statue of Artemis and a deer; a tombstone of Publius Sextilius Fortunatus; a polychrome funerary stele w/ two
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Curtis Harris
curtismharris
Your annual reminder that Memorial Day (né Decoration Day) is the best time of the year to commemorate the men and women who put the beat down on the Confederacy
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Erica Buddington ✨
ericabuddington
#Thread: Okay, I'm taking a crack at this. This photo is beautiful. I'm going with two schools—one in Ocala and one on the outskirts of Ocala. One is Howard Academy,
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Kristen Hampton
goodnewshampton
I’ve been talking with a lot of my friends over the last week about how we can help. Everybody wants to help. But I’ve heard a lot of my well-meaning
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SAY HER NAME 🌻
x_VintageBesos
Oooh I wanna do a thread of Juneteenth facts! Brb. For those who don’t know, Juneteenth marks the emancipation of the last enslaved Black people in the confederacy. It started
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