American Black History

03/01/2026

Happy Afro American Day To All Our Followers.

(Day one starts March 01) We as a people should stay free of hair chemicals, weave in hair, and any hair grease besides natural hair minerals like "MSM", natural oils like coconut, rosemary, peppermint, and castor oil.

We stated "Happy Afro American Day" as a singular reference. However we know that hair follicles take at least 8 months of healing for growth.

Thus March 1st Acts as the day of stopping and not buying chemical hair products that causes thyroid conditions and cancer. It also enacts the awareness of many health conditions caused by these bio products.

Healing the CROWN is the true HEAD of your TEMPLE.

Your next Crown segment are your TEETH. Root Canal with crown caps on them that are infected that you put off with antibiotics or salt mouthwash, are silently infecting all your organs and blood. You must get X-rays annually for check-up to make sure your good.

Your teeth problems could be the mole to all your health and hair problems....

03/01/2026

Photo taken on April 25, 1956:

By April 26, 1956, all 530 buses of the Dallas Transit Company were scheduled to have these signs removed.

These signs were being removed following a Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation on public transportation within a state was unconstitutional.

03/01/2026

Afro American Day!

03/01/2026

Part 2 of the History of Resurrection City:

“We ought to come in mule carts, in old trucks, any kind of transportation people can get their hands on."

“People ought to come to Washington, sit down if necessary in the middle of the street and say, ‘We are here; we are poor; we don’t have any money; you have made us this way…and we’ve come to stay until you do something about it.’”

- Dr. Martin Luther King

📷 John Houston

03/01/2026

Part 1 of the History of Resurrection City:

“We ought to come in mule carts, in old trucks, any kind of transportation people can get their hands on,” said Dr. King. “People ought to come to Washington, sit down if necessary in the middle of the street and say, ‘We are here; we are poor; we don’t have any money; you have made us this way…and we’ve come to stay until you do something about it.’”

- Dr. Martin Luther King Last Speech Before His Untimely Death Due For Love of The American People.

Resurrection City was a 16-acre, 42-day protest encampment on the National Mall from May 15 to June 24, 1968, where ~3,000 people lived in 3,000 tents to demand economic justice, including a guaranteed living wage and employment. Led by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the tent city aimed to make poverty visible.

Situated south of the Reflecting Pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the current World War II Memorial site.

It included wooden shelters, a mess tent, city hall, and a school. The Reverend Jesse Jackson served as the "mayor" of the camp. Reverend Jackson actually lived for the whole 42 days. Living on-site allowed him to manage the camp's daily internal government, oversee security "marshals," and mediate between the different ethnic and culture groups staying there.

The campaign brought together a diverse group of poor people from across the country, including Appalachian whites, Native Americans, Chicanos, and African Americans.

The camp experienced heavy rain, turning it into a "City of Mud". The "Solidarity Day" rally on June 19, 1968, brought over 50,000 people to support the cause.

While the camp had rudimentary plumbing, electricity, and its own ZIP code (20013), the constant dampness led to concerns about sanitation and illness. Protesters shared the space with mosquitoes and faced sweltering D.C. humidity.

Despite the mess, it operated as a real town with a "Soul Tent" for entertainment, a psychiatrist, a barbershop, a daycare, and a "University of Resurrection City" where activists held workshops.

While immediate legislative gains were limited, the campaign successfully highlighted poverty, leading to increased food programs and welfare improvements shortly after.

However the camp suffered from leadership disputes, racial tensions, and a departure from Dr. King’s strict vision of non-violence among some residents after his death.

The dispute where between whom had real meanful authority of so many diverse people evolved to a clash facilitate by the city and government. Walter Washington was the actual Mayor of the District of Columbia at the time; he was the one who eventually declared the State of Emergency when the camp was cleared.

Appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967, Washington was the first African American to lead a major U.S. city.

Unlike many city leaders of the era, Washington was known for a moderate and calm approach. During the riots following Dr. King's assassination in April 1968, he famously refused to issue a "shoot to kill" order for looters, despite pressure from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

Under COINTELPRO, the FBI monitored and disrupted the campaign by placing "paid infiltrators" inside the camp. The FBI used smear tactics to spread rumors that "militants" were planning violence, which heightened tension between the campers and the police.

SCLC leader Ralph Abernathy explicitly accused the police and federal agents of using infiltrators to provoke the very rock-throwing and violence that authorities then used as a reason to clear the camp.

J. Edgar Hoover's FBI was the primary architect of the subversion that destabilized the camp from within.

Lawmakers and authorities were already on edge following the widespread riots that occurred across over 90 cities after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination just two months prior.

The encampment was forced to close on June 24, 1968, following the expiration of their permit and a final, tense police action.

Around 1,000 to 2,000 police officers in riot gear (protective helmets and nightsticks) surrounded and "stormed" the camp. Most residents were away marching at the Department of Agriculture or the Capitol at the time.

While the initial clearing of the camp took less than 90 minutes, clashes occurred nearby. Police fired tear gas canisters to disperse crowds, and some protesters reportedly threw rocks in response.

More than 288 people were arrested at the site, and campaign leader Ralph Abernathy was arrested separately while leading a sit-in at the Capitol.

📷 John Houston

02/27/2026

02/27/2026

The quest for "forever" civil rights for Black citizens in the United States is a journey defined by landmark legal protections and a continuous, evolving struggle for our fulfillment.

Struggles continue against systemic racism, including unequal access to housing, education, and voting, as documented by studies on the civil rights movement and reports from the Center for American Progress.

Advocates use marches, legal action, and protests, often following the model of the mid-20th century, as shown in the Library of Congress exhibit on the civil rights era.

The "Reconstruction Amendments" established the legal basis for Black citizenship and rights following the Civil War:

13th Amendment (1865): Formally abolished slavery, though it included a clause allowing involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime.

14th Amendment (1868): Granted birthright citizenship and guaranteed "equal protection of the laws," intended to repeal the 1857 Dred Scott decision.

15th Amendment (1870): Prohibited the denial of voting rights based on race or previous condition of servitude.

Civil Rights Act of 1964: Outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and employment.

The 14th Amendment and the major Civil Rights Acts were written specifically to address the status and rights of Black Americans.

The driving force behind the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments was specifically to repair the injustice of slavery and secure the future of the "Freedmen" (the formerly enslaved) and their descendants.

During Reconstruction (1865–1877), the Radical Republicans in Congress were very clear that they were writing laws to protect Black people.

The Freedmen’s Bureau Acts were specifically for formerly enslaved people and their descendants.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was a direct response to the "Black Codes" (laws passed by Southern states to keep Black people in a state of semi-slavery).

The laws were written for Black Americans, and applying them to everyone else "dilutes" the specific justice owed to the descendants of the enslaved.

Many lawmakers wanted to name "race" and "color" directly just as the Civil Rights Act of 1866 did to ensure there was no confusion that the law was for the formerly enslaved and their descendants.

John Bingham argued for the word "person" instead of "Black citizen." He believed that if they named a specific race, the law could be bypassed if "states" found new ways to discriminate that weren't technically based on "race" (like "grandfather clauses" or literacy tests). By using "any person," he intended to create a federal shield that no state could ever pe*****te.

During the 1866 Senate debates, Senator Edgar Cowan (a critic) specifically asked if this "universal" language would accidentally grant rights to "foreigners," specifically mentioning Chinese immigrants in California and "Gypsies" in Pennsylvania.

Senator Lyman Trumbull, a supporter of the amendment, replied "Undoubtedly," confirming that the law would indeed protect anyone born on U.S. soil.

Leaders like Frederick Douglass used these platforms to argue that no republic is safe if it denies equal rights to any of its citizens. Douglass's theories on the Constitution as a document "tilted towards freedom" influenced abolitionist members of Congress to push for the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

Lawmakers in D.C. had "mountains of evidence" of widespread mistreatment of Black Americans throughout the South.

The Freedmen's Bureau acted as an advocate for the interests of freed people, providing reports that fueled the Radical Republicans' desire for permanent constitutional guarantees.

Unfortunately there weren't any black people elected as a voice for black people. Black men were elected to the U.S. Congress shortly after its passage.

Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first Black U.S. Senator in 1870.

Blanche K. Bruce followed shortly after as the second Black Senator.

Convention delegates demanded an end to the Black Codes, which were state laws designed to mimic slavery.

They specifically petitioned for:

The Right to Testify: To speak in court against white people.

Jury Trials: The right to be judged by a jury of their peers.

Fair Contracts: Protection from labor laws that forced them into unpaid servitude.

Freed people on Edisto Island and elsewhere petitioned President Andrew Johnson and Congress for the right to purchase and hold land. They famously argued, "We wish to have a home if it be but a few acres", believing that without land, their future was "dangerous".

Before their identity was stolen, The Virginia Colored Convention stated clearly that they were "natives of American soil" and rejected any plan to "expatriate or colonize" them to other countries. They demanded the right to remain in the U.S. as full citizens.

Nearly every convention (from North Carolina to Illinois) demanded the establishment of public schools for Black children. They protested being taxed to support white schools while their own children were denied even basic education.

Black Americans are the only group whose rights were stripped by the state through centuries of chattel slavery, followed by a specific legal fight to reclaim them.

We agree that groups born or granted immigration rights to live in the United States should be granted protection under the law but house in a separate act of law that governs those policies and work force.

Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin argued that if employers were allowed to discriminate against foreigners, they would use that as a loophole to hire cheap foreign labor and exclude Black American workers, effectively recreating a system of exploitation.

As are followers behold, this is currently been happening anyways.

Since the majority of foreign people recognize their people and culture separate from American Black People and spell out their separation through words like People of Color" or "Minorities to enact a difference of cultures.

Again, foreigners who move here voluntarily should have legal protections, but they should not be eligible for programs meant to fix the specific damage done by American slavery and Jim Crow and many other acts and laws that were sickly for the enslaved and their descendants.

We believe at American black history page that these new laws should be base on a state based lineage. Because there is simply not enough facts under a plain Jane lineage base by blood. To implement lineage based laws, the biggest hurdle is documentation. Because slavery was designed to erase family history, tracing lineage because the enslaved was considered property instead of human being with a mind that could think and learn laws etc.

We know that 46 states ( mostly southern) enslavement flourish and even some of the Chinese enslavers whip, beat, r**e and marriaged their enslaved right here in the United States ( we did a video documentary of proof of this history about 9 months ago with a black couple).

02/27/2026

They were at Douglass High School getting ready to head to Washington D.C. for the March on Washington in 1963.

After a lot of common black people begin to understand their "forever civil rights" due to enslavement from 1920s, There were gatherings all of the nation to demand those forever civil rights for black people be honored.

02/27/2026

1970s Fashion & Styles

02/27/2026

Located in Gibson City, Illinois the Kent Canning Company, was a significant local employer of black seasonal employees.

The majority of their job performance were in food progressing:

Corn: A staple of Illinois agriculture, often documented in regional canning history.

Tomatoes: Commonly canned in a separate area.

Peas: Often mentioned as a core crop for mid-20th-century Midwestern canneries.

Green Beans: Frequently processed alongside corn

During the peak "canning season," work was grueling and continuous. Employees often labored 12-hour shifts, six to seven days a week, to process highly perishable crops like corn and tomatoes before they spoiled.

The factory floor was often hot, humid, and loud. Workers in the canning lines dealt with constant steam from the cooking process and the noise of heavy machinery.

While many were employed in unskilled or menial positions such as sorting, hauling, or assembly line work, the 1950s also saw more Black workers advancing into industrial roles that provided greater stability than Southern sharecropping.

These workers were a vital part of the local economy, though they often faced systemic racial discrimination in housing and community integration within rural Illinois towns.

They often lived in company-provided housing or temporary encampments, which were frequently segregated and lacked modern amenities compared to local residential standards.

Justin McCoy an employee states;

" I'm a seasonal worker but we work so hard from dust to dawn without equal pay.

Sometimes we sleep outdoors
encampment was over-crowdin or to hot to sleep inside".

02/27/2026

The "Teddy Bridgewater Act" (CS/CS/SB 178) is a Florida law unanimously passed in February 2026, allowing K-12 coaches to use up to $15,000 of their own money annually to support student-athletes. Inspired by former NFL quarterback Teddy Bridgewater's 2025 suspension for providing meals and rides to his players, the law permits funding for essentials like food, transportation, and recovery services.

Key Details of the Legislation:

Context: After retiring from the NFL, Teddy Bridgewater coached at his alma mater, Miami Northwestern High School. He was suspended in 2025 for providing "prohibited benefits" (Uber rides, food, and gear) to his players.

The Act: The Florida Senate unanimously (38-0) passed the bill, recognizing that assisting players with basic needs is not an impermissible benefit.

Provisions: The law requires the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) to allow head coaches to spend up to $15,000 per year of personal funds for player welfare, provided the expenses are reported.

Purpose: The bill aims to protect student-athletes' welfare and prevent coaches from being punished for assisting players with financial hardships.

The legislation has sparked conversations about adopting similar measures in other states to support underprivileged student-athletes.

02/27/2026

Today, February 26, 2026, marks exactly 14 years since the murder of Trayvon Benjamin Martin.
He was fatally shot on February 26, 2012, at the age of 17 while walking home from a convenience store in Sanford, Florida. Earlier this month, on February 5, he would have celebrated his 31st birthday.

Martin was unarmed, carrying only a bag of Skittles and an Arizona Iced Tea, when he was confronted by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.

Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder but was acquitted by a jury in July 2013 after claiming self-defense under Florida's "stand your ground" laws.

His murder and the subsequent acquittal of his shooter became a primary catalyst for the Black Lives Matter movement.

His parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, established the Trayvon Martin Foundation to provide support to families who have lost children to gun violence.
The hoodie remains a universal symbol of protest against racial profiling and a call for the safety of Black children.
We will never stop saying his name!