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| Sponsored by the Collective Black People Movement (CBPM) |
Courses Offered for free here at the CBPM Website include: 1. Blacks in the City Course- A look at the movement of Black People's struggle for freedom in the United States of America from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement. ( Lessons 1, 2, & 3, click here, Lesson 4, 5, & 6 click here, Lesson 7 see below ) 2. African Revolution - A look at some of the countries in Africa that had to use armed struggle to gain their independence from their Colonizer. Taught by Professor Ernest Dube. Click Here. 3. Caribbean Studies - A look at the history of African People in the Caribbean from slavery to the present. 4. Slavery in the United States - A look of the history of Black (African) People during slavery. 5. More to Come... |
| African History is the history of Black (African) People from all over the world. |
| Introduction to Blacks in the City: |
| Blacks in the City is a class offered at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, by the African Studies Department. Professor Amiri Baraka (Brother Leroy Jones) was the department Chair and also taught the course "Blacks in the City", a look at the struggles of Black People in the United States from reconstruction (1865) to the Civil Rights Movement (1960's). The class is now available here at the Collective Black People Movement (CBPM) website because a member of the CBPM brought their University notes to the Collective to share with our people. CBPM encourages Black People to take good notes in school and to bring this information back to the community to spread the knowledge. In this way, the cost to educate one individual from the community can educate all in the community who has interest. |
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| Lessons Click: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6 * Black Population in the U.S. a. 1860 - 4,000,000 b. 1900 - 8,000,000 * 1860 - 12% of Southern Whites had slaves, one or two, a small minority had great plantations. * 1860 - Some plantations contained up to 22,000 blacks enslaved in Baltimore, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans, St. Louis, and Louisville. * 1980 Census - 81 Cities in the U.S. with at least 20% of the city's population black. * South lagged behind the north in city development. * 1850 - Charleston, South Carolina 50% black. * There is a continuum of the blacks from the types of works they did in slavery days until today. * After the Civil War - Vagrancy was a law that blacks would get put in jail if they did not have a $500 bond in the city hall. * Free blacks were always better economically in the south than in the north. * Today, blacks in the south have independent businesses funeral parlors... * By the turn of the 19th century, blacks had about as much land as New England Territory, but every since that time it has diminished. * In the south there was less political liberty so it would not lead to revolts. * In the north there was more competition for jobs than in the south cause blacks had to compete with immigrants. * Specific Revolts on Cities: a. 1823 - Norfolk, Virginia, groups of Maroons led a large revolt, militants Bob Ferrade and William Walker led these revolts b. 1827 - New Orleans raided by the Maroons. c. 1827 - Macon, Georgia 300 blacks revolt. d. 1829 - Mobile, Alabama e. 1829 - Huntsville, Alabama f. 1829 - Fire set on New Orleans g. 1830 - New Orleans set on fire again. h. 1830 & 1965 - Cambridge set on fire by blacks. * The slave revolts in 1830's, took place at the same time of the Black Convention Movements and slave narratives. * Free Blacks resisted slavery and formed their own organizations. * Nigger Pews - Whites allowed blacks to come to their churches but they had to sit in the back section called "nigger pews" or "African Corners". * 1794 - Blacks formed Churches - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Richard Allen founder. Today the strongest institution in the African American Society is the church. * Most all black leaders have come out of the churches because it evolved from the independent black churches instead of the segregated churches. * Black Theology - book on militant aspects of black churches by James Cone. * Fraternal Societies - Mutual benefit societies formed before the churches, 1780. In Philadelphia a group formed to record births and deaths of blacks. * African Zion - Church formed in 1821. * Philadelphia blacks considered themselves the most developed socially and economically. * New York was the headquarters of the Black Convention Movements ever since Fredrick Douglass moved there. * 1822 - Denmark Vesse led slave revolts * 1831 - Nat Turner led slave revolts * After these Denmark and Nat, the south opposes black churches. * The Rebellions led by Denmark and Nat was terrifying to the majority of the population. These rebellions was not publicised much after it happened. * In New Orleans there was a sharp class difference between blacks and ma lottos. * 1700 - There was 1500 blacks in New York. |
| 1856 - Harper's Ferry where slave rebellion led by John Brown. |
| 1910 - 1914: Heavy Black Immigration into Harlem, from the South, the Caribbean, and rest of world...Blacks in the City Lesson 8... |
| Lessons Click: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6 Northern Cities - Black Manhattan * Earliest Black community in Manhattan was in Greenwich Village. * Wall Street, Long Island, Staten Island, and Westchester was all Slave areas. * Dutch Slavery little lighter than English Slavery. * 1741 - Attack on the Battery Fort. Governors Mansion burnt down. All blacks and whites who participated in this was hanged. * 5 out of 6 blacks were free in 19th century. * 1863 - A lot of pro sentiment for slavery in the upper class because they were connected to southern plantation owners. * 1863 - Draft Riots. Irish immigrants attacked blacks, burned down nursery then blacks moved to Hell's Kitchen in N.W. Manhattan (San Juan Hill - 9th ave. west 40's and 50's in New York City. * N.Y.C. - was the antislavery headquarters also here there was the most people against the Liberation Movement. * 1876 - At the end of Reconstruction, the status of blacks declined all over and in New York. * 1,665 blacks got lynched after Reconstruction. * 1900 - Riots began to wake black people up, they saw how far they have been pushed down. * Syphilis Syndrome - Rise and fall of black people in relationship to black events. * Citizens Protective League formed by T. Thomas Fortune to prevent future injustice against blacks. * WEB Dubois and Booker T. Washington signified change in Syphilis Syndrome for blacks. * 1967 - Black Panther Party formed in Oakland by Hughie Newton, a law student, and Bobby Seals to protect black people against white police and the norms of American Society. * 1900 - Afro American Council formed by J.C. Price. The function of the council was to respond to attacks made on blacks. * 1900 - Debate between WEB Dubois and Booker T. Washington * 1901 - Book "Souls of Black Folks" by WEB Dubois. * 3 Fundamental approach to Black Life in America yesterday and today: a. Submit b. Back to Africa c. Stay and Fight * Niagara Movement - formed by whites and black militants. * 1901 - Silvester Williams and WEB Dubois formed the Pan African Movement. * 1974 - First Pan African Conference in Africa and the sixth Pan African Conference was held in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. * 1888 - Berlin Conference, when Africa was divided up between Europe, Africa was weakened by taking of Africans as slaves until they were able to take over Africa. * Niagara Movement called for: a. Freedom of Speech and Criticism b. Recognition of human c. Brotherly Hood d. Discrimination cease e. Separation of street cars based on race to stop f. Same laws for rich and poor (asked for the rights that comes as a citizen, asking for democracy. * 1954 - Segregation ends legally in the United States. * 1910 - NAACP formed in New York, which grew out of the Niagara Movement and incorporated and absorbed into another direction. * NAACP - means was legally to make change for blacks by bringing law suits by going to court. * 1964 - March on Washington DC was coop by Kennedy because he said he would lead it. * 1910 - Urban League formed in New York City to generate Urban Development for blacks. * 1900 - Uptrend -more blacks aware and organized, more education, more national support for blacks, and thousands of southern blacks moving to the cities in the north. WEB Dubois came to the north from Alabama during this time. *1910 -1914 - Heavy black immigration into Harlem from the south, Caribbean, and the rest of the world. Blacks moved to Harlem because Harlem had better living conditions for blacks and the most modern houses/ |
| Another Day in a students life, there will be another lesson. Stay tuned to what the student learns on day Nine in the African History Classes, "Blacks in the City", offered by the CBPM. |
| Slavery on Long Island, NY |
| Hughie Newton & Bobby Seals |
| Men of Niagara Movement |
| Women of Niagara Movement |
| New York City and Long Island |
| Lesson 7: "Blacks in the City" Original Lesson Date 10-4-84: |
| Lesson 8: "Blacks in the City" Original Lesson Date 10-9-84: |
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