African American History

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 […]

Frederick Douglass speaks on immigrant rights

February 22, 2023 fwstaff

By Fighting Words Staff In 1867, the most important figure in the anti-slavery movement in the U.S., Frederick Douglass, gave a speech in Boston about immigrant rights, specifically those people coming from China and Japan. […]

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 […]

MLK at 1963 Detroit march with CL Franklin

Honoring MLK Six Decades After the Mass Struggles of 1963

January 11, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe On January 16 in the United States, the 94th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be commemorated as a federal holiday. Since 1986, the third Monday of January has been […]

Feature Film Portrays the Important Role of Mamie Till-Mobley in Igniting the Mass Civil Rights Movement

November 3, 2022 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe Film: Till Director: Chinonye Chukwu Producers: Keith Beauchamp, Barbara Broccoli, Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Levine, Michael Reilly, Frederick Zollo Writers: Chinonye Chukwu, Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp Star Actors: Danielle Deadwyler (Mamie Till-Bradley), Jalyn […]

Rev. Charles Melvin Sherrod, Civil Rights Leader Who Brought the Fight to Segregated Southwest Georgia, Dies at 85

October 16, 2022 fwstaff

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 11, 2022 Contact: Clennon L. King AugustineMonica MediaWorks 207.450.3585 clennon@augustinemonica.com Albany, Georgia….Rev. Charles Melvin Sherrod, whose grassroots organizing of unregistered Black voters sent shock waves through the segregated South, and kickstarted […]

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

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Frederick Douglass speaks on immigrant rights

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

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African American Resistance in the Rural South

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

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Antebellum Agriculture and the World Capitalist System

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African Americans and the United States Civil War

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Honoring MLK Six Decades After the Mass Struggles of 1963

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Rev. Charles Melvin Sherrod, Civil Rights Leader Who Brought the Fight to Segregated Southwest Georgia, Dies at 85

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