With the race riots of Springfield, IL (Lincoln’s hometown) as a catalyst, the NAACP was founded six months later as a covert military intelligence spyfront. The public generally believes that the NAACP was founded by people like W.E.B. DuBois (who would later become a leader of the Communist Party), but the truth is that the organization had a heavy Jewish influence from its inception, founded by Henry Moscowitz (a German Jew) on February 12, 1909 (100th birthday of Abraham Lincoln) and aided by Rabbi Emil Hirsch. Of course, the organization consisted of a larger group including African Americans W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimké, and whites such as Mary White Ovington, William English Walling (the wealthy Socialist son of a former Russian slave-holding family and married to a Jewish wife), Florence Kelley, a social reformer and friend of Du Bois; Oswald Garrison Villard, and Charles Edward Russell, a renowned muckraker and close friend of Walling. Continue Reading…
National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons
A construction company building a parking structure at Central Connecticut State University raised up a US flag at the end of a steel cable on a crane for the Memorial Day holiday weekend. The construction company wanted to honor military personnel by displaying an American flag for Memorial Day, but a complaint that the cable was a noose sent campus officials scrambling to take down the ...
The Church Committee was formed following one of the most controversial events in American history. Watergate had revived American feelings of distrust in their government. Also, Seymour Hersh, of the New York Times, ran an article on December 22, 1974, concerning alleged intelligence abuses by the CIA and other intelligence agencies; American suspicions grew. In an attempt to respond and alleviate American distrust, the Ford Administration ...
She was arrested, fingerprinted, and incarcerated. When Parks agreed to have her case contested, it became a cause célèbre in the fight against Jim Crow laws. Her trial for this act of civil disobedience triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the largest and most successful mass movements against racial segregation in history, and launched Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the organizers of the boycott, to the forefront ...
Claudette Colvin was an important figure in the civil rights movement. She was born on September 5, 1939. At birth, she was adopted by C. P. Colvin and Mary Anne Colvin, who lived in a poor neighborhood in Montgomery, Alabama. This was a time of intense racial divide, and Colvin was a victim of it along with the rest. At the age of four, she was ...
With the race riots of Springfield, IL (President Lincoln's hometown) as a catalyst, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded six months later. The public generally believes that the NAACP was founded by people like W.E.B. DuBois (who would later become a leader of the Communist Party), but the truth is that the organization had a heavy Jewish influence from its inception, founded by ...
The riot began the evening of Friday, Aug. 14, 1908, when a white crowd gathered outside the Sangamon County Jail, apparently intending to lynch two black prisoners: Joe James was a black man convicted of attacking and killing Clergy Ballard, a white mining engineer, in Ballard’s home early July 5, 1908. The attack was one of two incidents that helped inspire the riot. An all-white jury in Springfield later ...