Category: History
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Preface to “The Reason Why”
“We only ask a fair and impartial hearing.” In 1893, Ida B. Wells stood at the gates of the Chicago World’s Fair to protest the erasure of Black achievement. Read the powerful preface to her pamphlet “The Reason Why,” a masterclass in truth-telling and historical correction. – Ida B. Well
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“Paul Revere’s Ride”
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Listen, my children, and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, “If the British marchBy land or sea from the town to-night,Hang a lantern aloft in the…
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On Being Brought from Africa to America
“Some view our sable race with scornful eye, “Their colour is a diabolic die.” Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain, May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.” — from “On being brought from AFRICA to AMERICA.” by Phillis Wheatley
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