African American History Month series 2023

Electoral Politics and African American Studies

March 3, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 10 “In spite of the long and untiring work in education and organization of the pioneers of Civil Rights; in spite of the painstaking effort made […]

Tom Burrell rallying farmers in Tennessee during 2002

Land Loss and the Renewed Struggle of African American Farmers

March 3, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 9 In the years between 1910 and 2000, African American farmers and agricultural workers lost over 14 million acres of land. One of the major demands […]

African Americans in Fayette County Tennessee organized against segregation during the 1960s

Civil Rights and the Transformation from Tenant to Mechanized Agriculture

February 27, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 7 On Christmas night 1951 in Mims, Florida, sticks of planted dynamite exploded underneath the home of veteran organizers for the NAACP and the Progressive Voters […]

Scottsboro case demonstration in Washington, D.C. during 1933

African American Resistance in the Rural South from the Sharecroppers Union to the New Farmers of America

February 22, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 6 Several years prior to the formation of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in 1934, a series of events in the state of Alabama would […]

Southern Tenant Farmers Union meeting in Arkansas

African American Resistance in the Rural South from the Great Depression to World War II

February 21, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 5 During October 1929, the United States economic system was plunged into an unprecedented depression where tens of millions were thrown out of work and their […]

African American Farmers Alliance of the late 19th century

African American Resistance in the Rural South

February 20, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 4 “The new industry had a vision not of work but of wealth, not of planned accomplishment, but of power. It became the most conscienceless, unmoral […]

Reversing Reconstruction, the Rise of Tenant Agriculture and the Great Migration

February 9, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 3 “By an act of April 16, 1862, which abolished slavery in the District of Columbia, Congress made an appropriation of $100,000 for voluntary Negro emigrants […]

Antebellum Agriculture and the World Capitalist System

February 9, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 2 “It was the Black worker, as founding stone of a new economic system in the nineteenth century and for the modern world, who brought civil […]

African Americans and the United States Civil War

February 9, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 1 By 1860, the dominant industry within southern agriculture was cotton production which utilized the unpaid labor of Africans on lands which were stolen from the […]

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African American History Month series 2023

Electoral Politics and African American Studies

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