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Let Freedom Ring #1193

Let Freedom Ring

Middle Passage #1240

The Middle Passage Atlantic slave trade transported African people from Africa to markets in North America, South America and the Caribbean (The Americas). It was called the Middle Passage because the slave trade was a form of Triangular trade; ships left Europe for African markets, sailed to Africa where the goods were sold or traded for people in the African slave markets, then sailed to the Americas and Caribbean (West Indies) where the Africans were sold or traded for goods for European markets, and then returned to Europe.

NAACP #1195

Caption from poster: If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known. – W.E.B. DuBois

Nat Turner #1120

Lynching in the United States, has influenced and been influenced by the major social conflicts in the country, revolving around the American frontier, Reconstruction, and the civil rights movement. Originally, lynching meant any extra-judicial punishment, including tarring and feathering and running out of town, but during the 19th century in the United States, it began to be used to refer specifically to murder, usually by hanging.

Nat Turner #1267

Nat, remembered today as “Nat Turner”, (October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831) was an American slave whose failed slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, was the most remarkable instance of black resistance to enslavement in the antebellum southern United States. His methodical slaughter of white civilians during the uprising made him a controversial figure, but he is still considered by many to be a heroic figure of black resistance to oppression. Though he became known as Nat Turner in the aftermath of the uprising, his actual given name was simply Nat.

Prince Hall #1148

Caption from poster: Abolitionist, civic leader, caterer, leather-dresser, and founder of what would become the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, little is known of the life of Prince Hall. He is claimed by Grimshaw to have been born in Barbados, B.W.I. on September 12, 1748, although no record of this has ever been found.

Rev. Richard Allen #1191

Caption from poster: In 1794, Allen founded Bethel African Methodist Church. “We were stolen from our mother country, and brought here. We have tilled the ground and made fortunes for thousands, and still they are not weary of our services.”

Scottsboro Boys #1233

The case of the Scottsboro Boys arose in Scottsboro, Alabama during the 1930s, when nine black youths ranging in age from thirteen to nineteen, were accused of raping two white women, one of whom would later recant. The boys were convicted and sentenced to death by all-white juries despite the weak and contradictory testimonies of the witnesses. The death sentences, originally scheduled to be carried out quickly, were postponed pending appeals that took the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the sentences were overturned.

Slave Whipped #1045

Caption from poster: The victim usually forgives, but the perpetrator rarely repents.