Black Mail: Special Delivery!
It is both ironic and sad that the these words spoken in 1964 are still true today in 2015.
Equity & Exclusion, Pt. 3: The 1921 Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act. a law meant to help mothers ended up displacing a generation of Black midwives and birth workers.

Equity and Exclusion, Part 2: In January 1865, Savannah's Black ministers were asked what freedom actually required. Their answer led to Special Field Order No. 15, "40 Acres and a Mule." Within eighteen months, the promise was broken. Watch the story, one of 80 entries in Equity & Exclusion.

Equity and Exclusion: an interactive timeline tracing 250 years of federal actions and their impact on Black Americans.

2 comments
Neefer
Thank you for posting this. I would like to share it with credit to you. Please, LMK if that is OK.
BlackMail4u
Thank you. No need to credit the blog. This quote has been shared widely for many years.