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Original Publisher unknown. Reprinted on History Is A Weapon website.

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Interview by Karen Wald and published in Cages of Steel: The Politics Of Imprisonment In The United States (Edited by Ward Churchill and J.J. Vander Wall)...

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In 1970, Angela Y Davis was arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping and first-degree murder. Davis’ gun was used in a violent hold-up of a California courtroom. She was subsequently acquitted of all charges. On November 19,1970, James Baldwin wrote an open letter to Angela Davis....

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Taken from the third chapter of "The Reason why the colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition," published in 1893.

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In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the civil rights era—and beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the true story of the notorious prison, drawing on police records, prison documents, folklore, blues songs, and oral history, from the days of cotton-field chain gangs to the 1960s, when Parchman was used to break the wills of civil rights workers who journeyed south on Freedom Rides....

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Acknowledgements Prologue PART ONE: AFTER SLAVERY, BEFORE PARCHMAN 1. The Emancipation 2. The Mississippi Plan 3. American Siberia 4. The White Chief PART TWO: THE PARCHMAN ERA 5. The Birth and Birthplace 6. The Parchman Farm 7. The Other Parchman: White Men, Black Women 8. Going Home 9. Executioner's Song 10. A Farm with Slaves Epilogue Notes Index...

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Speech by Frederick Douglass on the occasion of the Twenty-Sixth Anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1888....

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In 1888, Douglass visited South Carolina and Georgia and realized how little he had known about the true conditions of his people in the South. On April 10, soon after his return, he wrote to one of the leaders of a movement for encouraging the emigration of southern Negroes to the northwest: "I had hoped that the relations subsisting between the former slaves and the old master class would gradually improve; but while I believed this, and still have some such weak faith, I have of late seen enough, heard enough, and learned enough of the condition of these people in South Carolina and Georgia, to make me welcome any movement which will take them out of the wretched condition in which I now know them to be. While I shall continue to labor for increased justice to those who stay in the South, I give you my hearty `God-speed' in your emigration scheme. I believe you are doing a good work." A few days later, he spoke in Washington at the celebration of the twenty-sixth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia. His address revealed how deeply he had been moved by his southern tour. His voice quivered with rage as he d...

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The status of the Negro was the focal problem of Reconstruction. Slavery had been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, but the white people of the South were determined to keep the Negro in his place, socially, politically, and economically. This was done by means of the notorious "Black Codes," passed by several of the state legislatures. Northerners regarded these codes as a revival of slavery in disguise. The first such body of statutes, and probably the harshest, was passed in Mississippi in November 1865....

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Harriet A. Jacobs. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself(1 861). First printed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1861. Reprinted as Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, ed. L. Maria Child; enlarged ed., ed. Jean Fagan YeUin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), pp. 68-71....

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Jermain Wesley Loguen, Letter to Sarah Logue (March 28, 1860). First printed as "Mr. Loguen's reply," in The Liberator (Boston, Massachusetts), vol. 30, no. 17 (Whole no. 1531) (April 27, 1860), p.1....

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Henry Bibb, Letter to William Gatewood (March 23,1844). In Henry Bibb, Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself(New York: Published by the Author, 1850; New York: Greenwood Publishing Company/Negro Universities Press, 1969). pp. 176-76....

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This letter is a part of Black Abolitionist Papers Vol. III: The United States, 1830-1846, a five-volume documentary collection--culled from an international archival search that turned up over 14,000 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, and newspaper editorials--revealing how black abolitionists represented the core of the antislavery movement. While the first two volumes consider black abolitionists in the British Isles and Canada (the home of some 60,000 black Americans on the eve of the Civil War), the remaining volumes examine the activities and opinions of black abolitionists in the United States from 1830 until the end of the Civil War. In particular, these volumes focus on their reactions to African colonization and the idea of gradual emancipation, the Fugitive Slave Law, and the promise brought by emancipation during the war....

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David Walker's Appeal, arguably the most radical of all anti-slavery documents, caused a great stir when it was published in September of 1829 with its call for slaves to revolt against their masters. David Walker, a free black originally from the South wrote, ". . .they want us for their slaves, and think nothing of murdering us. . . therefore, if there is an attempt made by us, kill or be killed. . . and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty." Even the outspoken William Lloyd Garrison objected to Walker's approach in an editorial about the Appeal. The goal of the Appeal was to instill pride in its black readers and give hope that change would someday come. It spoke out against colonization, a popular movement that sought to move free blacks to a colony in Africa. America, Walker believed, belonged to all who helped build it. He went even further, stating, "America is more our country than it is the whites -- we have enriched it with our blood and tears." He then asked, "will they drive us from our property and homes, which ...

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Walker's Appeal Preamble Article I. Article II. Article III. Article IV. Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the U.S.

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In this reading, Gottlieb Mittelberger, writing in the mid-eighteenth century, describes in detail the plight of the indentured servant.

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Poem by Gil Scott-Heron

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Excerpts from The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Excerpts of writings and speeches by Malcolm X on Afro-American History.

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First published in 1933, the thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that African-Americans of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes African-Americans to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they are a part. He challenges his readers to become autodidacts and to "do for themselves", regardless of what they were taught: History shows that it does not matter who is in power... those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they did in the beginning....

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Introduction Forward Preface 1. The Seat of the Trouble...23 2. Houw We Missed the Mark...28 3. How We Drifted Away from the Truth...32 4. education Under Outside Control...37 5. The Failure to Learn to Make a Living...44 6. The Educated Negro Leaves the Masses...52 7. Dissension and Weakness...58 8. Professional Education Discouraged...65 9. Political Education Neglected...70 10. The Loss of Vision...77 11. The Need for Service Rather than Leadership...86 12. Hirelings in the Place of Public Servants...91 13. Understand the Negro...98 14. The New Program...105 15. Vocational Guidance...112 16. The New Type of Professional Man Required...121 17. Higher Strivings in the Service of the Country...126 18. The Study of the Negro...131 Appendix Index...

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1915 speech delivered by Carlos Montezuma in Lawrence, Kansas for the Society of American Indians Conference, which was later published in The American Indian Magazine (January-March 1916, Vol. 4, No. 1), and then reprinted in various newspapers. Montezuma's speech was also read during the first sessions of the Sixty-Fourth Congress in 1916, and included in the Congressional Record....

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Pocket Library of Socialism, No.23, Jan. 15, 1901 Rev. Brown was principal of the Modern School

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A People's History of the United States is a 1980 non-fiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn seeks to present an alternate interpretation of the history of the United States. According to the author, American history is to a large extent the exploitation of the majority by an elite minority....

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1854 Essay by Lucretia Mott taken from Miriam Schneir's, "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings," Vintage Books, 1972, pp.100-102.

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A Great Difference between Red and White is a speech written by Sago-Yo-Watha (Red Jacket), Iroquois, 1805 and published in Daniel Drake's book "Lives of Celebrated American Indians" (Boston, Bradbury, Soden & Co. 1843), 283–87....

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“Yet we did not fear them. We took them to be friends. They called us brothers. We believed them and gave them a larger seat ... they wanted more land; they wanted our country. Our eyes were opened, and our minds became uneasy.” “You have got our country, but are not satisfied; you want to force your religion upon us.” “How shall we know when to believe, being so often deceived by the white people?”...

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass encompasses eleven chapters that recount Douglass's life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man....

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More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown (Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin), chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography—which was first published in 1969, went through seven printings and has long been unavailable—chronicles the making of a revolutionary. It is much more than a personal history, however; it is a call to arms, an urgent message to the black community to be the vanguard force in the struggle of oppressed people. Forthright, sardonic, and shocking, this book is not only illuminating and dynamic but also a vitally important document that is essential to understanding the upheavals of the late 1960s. University of Massachusetts professor Ekwueme Michael Thelwell has updated this edition, covering Brown’s decades of harassment by law enforcement agencies, his extraordinary transformation into an important Muslim leader, and his sensational trial....

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Foreword Page vii Introduction Page NA Body Page 1 Chapter 1 Page 1 Chapter 2 Page 13 Chapter 3 Page 33 Chapter 4 Page 47 Chapter 5 Page 55 Chapter 6 Page 65 Chapter 7 Page 75 Chapter 8 Page 81 Chapter 9 Page 91 Chapter 10 Page 99 Chapter 11 Page 109 Chapter 12 Page 133 ...

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James Boggs, born in Marion Junction, Alabama in 1919, never dreamed of becoming President or a locomotive engineer. He grew up in a world where the white folks are gentlemen by day and Ku Klux Klanners at night. Marion Junction is in Dallas County where as late as 1963, although African-Americans made up over 57 percent of the total county population of 57,000, only 130 were registered voters. After graduating from Dunbar High School in Bessemer, Alabama, in 1937, Boggs took the first freight train north, bumming his way through the western part of the country, working in the hop fields of the state of Washington, cutting ice in Minnesota, and finally ending up in Detroit where he worked on WPA until the Second World War gave him a chance to enter the Chrysler auto plant. Both a keen analysis of U.S. society and a passionate call for revolutionary struggle, The American Revolution has been translated into French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese....

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Introduction Body Page [13] Chapter 1: The Rise and Fall of the Union Page [13] Chapter 2: The Challenge of Automation Page [33] Chapter 3: The Classless Society Page [42] Chapter 4: The Outsiders Page [46] Chapter 5: Peace and War Page [61] Chapter 6: The Decline of the United States Empire Page [69] Chapter 7: Rebels with a Cause Page [75] Chapter 8: The American Revolution Page [88] ...

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The Peculiar Conundrum is a political allegory, substituting difficult legal concepts with rules of sports. In the fictional country of Aminica (the United Franchises of Aminica), General Managers (Senators) and Head Coaches (Representatives) ignore many of their constraints listed in the Compact (Constitution) and act with impunity. The Sports Commissioner (President) and Referees (Supreme Court Justices) likewise do as they please. The country founded upon sports freedom, where soccer is named as the Supreme Sport of the Land, gets transformed by open corruption into football played to the death, where back-room deals enrich sports politicians and We The People are oppressed. But one man, Brandon Crawford, with the help of his brothers, work tirelessly to understand the peculiar conundrum, the odd phenomenon, of members of Congress and federal officials seemingly acting contrary to founding principles with impunity, so we may finally end the methodical push toward absolute tyranny....

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From the Back Cover: Envision for a moment, the following nonsensical sportscast: “Only seventeen seconds remain on the clock as we near the end of the sixth inning. The soccer ball is caught by Right End Tom King, only 9 yards from home plate. “To keep from being called for ‘Traveling,’ King dribbles the ball but still manages to get past the Goalie without being tackled. Moments later he slam-dunks the ball through the basket to score a touchdown and the Cattails win the game.” It wouldn’t take much of a sports enthusiast to realize something was strangely amiss with this “game,” as the rules and terms from soccer, baseball, basketball and football were all intermixed into one bewildering event. And, with millions of die-hard sports fans across America who intricately know every rule and regulation of their favored sport, there is about zero chance any huckster would succeed in passing this off as a legitimate game. But, replace the game with politics, law and government, and tragically the most sacred of our country’s founding legal and moral principles may be substituted by their polar opposites with nothing but the weak...

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As these proud and once-prosperous United States of America continue in tragic decline, Mark Evanston leaps back into action in the third and final installment of the Bald Justice series, Bare Liberty. Working with his colleagues at the Patriot Corps, Mark continues on with his Patriot Quest to eliminate government tyranny, once and for all. Mark routs out evil where it lurks most prevalently, within our monetary system which was cleverly separated from the gold and silver coin which is otherwise required by our U.S. Constitution. By understanding precisely how our government is able to ignore the Constitution with impunity, Mark soon devises his proposed cure, his Once and For All Amendment. Bare Liberty provides the solid rationale for proposing and ratifying a new constitutional amendment in story form, to close the constitutional loophole which has always allowed government to act in all cases whatsoever, to act everywhere except where they are expressly prohibited from acting. By Building Awareness of Republican Knowledge, the Patriot Corps is able to help Restore Our American Republic. By individually learning to B.A.R.K...

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“I have to admit, my first killing shocked me,” Terry admitted. “Not because it was so hard, but actually because it was so easy and even more so because it was thrilling. Total dominion over someone else is very intoxicating, so much better than alcohol, drugs, or even sex. Actually, it was even better killing someone who had willingly just given me great sex only hours earlier, who now welcomed me back, only for me to then kill her.” “Your first killing?” Mark was able to get out, before figuring out that Terry must have also killed Stan Bogelman and Mike Holladay. “I can see you now realize that I also killed Stan and Mike, as well as your sex double Art Black down in California, after your investigators began closing in on him,” Terry offered. “And now I see you finally understand that I’m telling you all this so I can get a bigger thrill out of killing you next.” Mark had no time to try and process that information, but simply react, more aggressively than he had ever acted in his lifetime. Mark sprinted the few yards toward Terry with all the speed and determination he could possible muster, but Terry was easily able t...

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Base Tyranny is the second book in a fiction series (following Bald Justice), looking at our monetary history of gold and silver coin, transitioning into legal tender paper currencies....

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Gordon Radcliff’s plan was ironically rooted in America’s extensive seacoast defense system. On March 17, 1861, two weeks after the necessary two-thirds of Congress had sent the proposed 13th Amendment to the States for ratification and a week after the Confederate States of America approved emitting bills of credit directly, Gordon Radcliff attended a family reunion and dinner. Originally Gordon had planned to skip the reunion, so he could continue to concentrate on his work, to come up with some plan to move things forward. It was only after the ever-persistent nagging by his mother that he dutifully decided at the last minute to attend the function. If his mother only knew the ultimate cost of that nagging, she would have never enticed her son to attend. If she knew then the devastation her son would help instigate and his ‘reward’ for bringing it to his mentor’s attention, she would have taken far more drastic action than simply avoid nagging her son. After dinner, Gordon patiently listened, along with several other family members, to his patriotic cousin ramble on continuously about his second year of engineering s...

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Dollars and nonCents examines American monetary history, showing how paper currencies were deceptively made a legal tender (alongside gold and silver coin) in 1862 and cleverly upheld by the courts who were not exactly forthright with their rulings (necessitating a reading between the lines to understand them). Dollars and nonCents recommends a grain of gold as a market unit for accounting for the amount of gold, to begin transitioning away from the debt-based dollar which is destabilizing the United States....

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Proponents of a legal tender paper currency occasionally point to the Constitution’s wording of the power “To coin Money” and claim that the word “Money” must include paper currency, since ‘money’ appears to be a word of greater meaning than that used in the same clause as it relates to “foreign Coin.” This is but a slight variation of the same argument which compares this power “To coin Money” in the Constitution with the wording used in the Ninth of the earlier Articles of Confederation (the articles under which the United States were joined together in common union before the Constitution was ratified), which stated, in part: “The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of respective states…” These proponents of paper money correctly point out that no foreign paper currency can be made current as American money since only “foreign Coin” is specified and also that “regulating the alloy and value of coin struck” obviously restricts that older authority to ‘coin’ which could be ‘struck’ with an ‘a...

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Table of Contents Chapter 1. American Lawful Tender Money 1 Section 1. April 2, 1792 Coinage Act 1 Section 2. Standard Unit of Value 9 Section 3. Legal Tender Value — Weight & Purity 10 Section 4. Regulating the Value of Foreign Coinage 14 Section 5. Money - vs. - Coin 17 Section 6. June 28, 1834 Coinage Act 21 Chapter 2. Political Feuding 31 Section 1. The Banks of the United States 31 Section 2. The Independent Treasury 33 Chapter 3. Promise Money and the Courts 41 Section 1. Bronson v. Rodes, 74 U.S. 229 (1869) 41 Section 2. Hepburn v. Griswold, 75 U.S. 603 (1870) 42 Section 3. Legal Tender 43 Section 4. The Legal Tender Cases, 79 U.S. 457 (1871) 45 Section 5. Criminal Jurisdiction 48 Section 6. First Bank of the United States 54 Section 7. in all Cases whatsoever 57 Section 8. Electors 61 Section 9. Legislative Representation in States 62 Section 10. within the United States 65 Section 11. Presidential Elections 66 Section 12. The Legal Tender Cases (concurring opinion) 69 Section 13. Juilliard v. Greenman, 110 U.S. 421 (1884) 71 Section 14. Necessary and Proper-vs.-All Means Not...

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While Patriots repeatedly complain that progressives ignore the U.S. Constitution with impunity, Patriot Quest shows in reality that there is only strict construction of the Constitution, and those who act contrary to the spirit of the Constitution are, surprisingly, the ones who necessarily hold its letter up to its strictest terms. To back up that claim, Patriot Quest examines the precedent-setting 1871 Supreme Court case which first upheld paper currencies as legal tender (despite earlier court rulings which upheld a legal tender of only gold and silver coin). Understanding how the federal government acts in this particular case actually allows Patriots to understand how government acts "in all Cases whatsoever" with arbitrary power which has defied all previous attempts to limit it. With the knowledge of how omnipotent government has been successful to date, a blueprint may thankfully be formed to finally Restore Our American Republic once and for all; to reclaim limited government operating again under strict construction of the whole Constitution, the likes of which America has not seen for 150 years....

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The Golden Rule of American Government, which Patriots disregard to their peril, is that no one entrusted with the exercise of federal authority is empowered to change the extent of that authority (only ratified amendments change the Constitution [and only the States are empowered, by Article V of the U.S. Constitution, to ratify amendments]). Two crucial implications necessarily follow: 1. Since no federal action has therefore actually ever changed the Constitution, the Constitution of original intent remains fully intact, except as modified by the 27 Amendments which the States have ratified to date. 2. Since the federal government cannot change its power, the nearly unlimited discretion federal authorities have long-exercised must therefore necessarily come from somewhere within their delegated powers. ...

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Chapter 1. The Golden Rule 1 Chapter 2. Legal Tender Paper Currencies 15 The Legal Tender Cases; Passage Number One 19 The Legal Tender Cases; Passage Number Two 25 Chapter 3. In all Cases whatsoever 41 Chapter 4. The Bank of the United States 57 Chapter 5. Arbitrary Government 61 ...