Black History: Special Delivery!!

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Black History: Special Delivery!!

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Mary T. Washington: 1st African American Female Certified Public Accountant (CPA) In The U.S.
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
JaDonnia B.
Wow, this is incredible! I was just equating this sentiment with a form of ‘Stockholm Syndrome’, where the oppressed become so engrained in the systemic order of that oppression, that they begin to internalize, cooperate, perpetuate and protect that which oppresses them.
As long as they remain unenlightened, things stay as they are, children all over will continue to resign themselves and their futures as limited to right there in an oppressed state of being/ state of mind.
BlackMail4u
Oh yes! We internalize our oppression. And we transfer that internalized oppression to our children and communities!