Don't miss this important episode where we talk about the history of the treatment of black Americans that has led to the current climate we find ourselves in now. Share this episode with your friends and continue to support the work of necessary change in your city, state, and country.
Show Notes
Jamie is joined by two other panelists for this important discussion. Bob and Barry share their thoughts and perspectives throughout the episode.
We share our feelings respectfully. Truth can sometimes be hurtful, change is painful at times, but it makes us better.
Topics covered in this episode
- 1619 Africans were taken and sold to the Europeans in America
- African’s worked as slaves in the south, controlled by whites
- Civil War- 1861 to 1865
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation-
- 1865 Union soldiers traveled to Texas to inform black that they had been set free
- June 19th, 1865- many freed blacks escaped to the north and west as refugees
- Reconstruction and Repression from 1865 until 1900
- Black Codes
- Plessy V. Ferguson
- Jim Crow
- 1940’s and World War II
- Civil Rights Movement
- Daughters of the confederacy
- Black Panther Movement
- Mass Incarceration
- #BLACKLIVESMATTER
- ·2020 murder of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks
- ·Acts of hatred that we are seeing currently
We also share stories from our personal experiences. Our thoughts on what justice looks like and what it will take to move forward.
We highlight and discuss some of our favorite civil rights leaders.
This is an important conversation and we invite you to share it with people you know in hopes that it, and conversations like it, will lead to social change.
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