Install Theme

Your web-browser is very outdated, and as such, this website may not display properly. Please consider upgrading to a modern, faster and more secure browser. Click here to do so.

the sun is on my side

21 y/o nursing student all about quietly analyzing and deconstructing white supremacist capitalist patriarchy....I luv cats, food, fashion, afros, frilly pretty things, I post rambles/whines/thoughts a lot, and anything else I find interesting/inspiring/whatever

Posts tagged civil rights

Sep 28 '11

comradecommentary:

Freedom Riders. Jackson, Mississippi. 1961.

2,269 notes (via sluteverbabe & functionallyuseless)Tags: Black and White black history civil rights freedom riders fuck the man grassroots history liberation mugshot rebelion segregation subvert the system

Sep 8 '11
laborreguita: subconciousevolution: It is on the sweat and backs of our Brown Sisters (Cooking, Cleaning, Child Care)!! That the American Woman works Beside her Male Counterparts. and black sisters!

laborreguita:

subconciousevolution:

It is on the sweat and backs of our Brown Sisters (Cooking, Cleaning, Child Care)!! That the American Woman works Beside her Male Counterparts.

and black sisters!

77 notes (via floralfrenzies & subconciousevolution)Tags: feminism feminists feminist women women's rights womens rights womensrights rights right human right human rights civil rights civil right civil liberties civil liberty protest protests protesting protester protesters sign gender gender gap gender equality gender inequality gender discrimination

Aug 28 '11

pantslessprogressive:

48 years ago today: the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 people descended on the National Mall to advocate for social, political and economic justice for African Americans in the United States. The Freedom March is widely credited for pushing the JFK Administration and Congress to move forward on civil rights legislation.

The nine goals of the rights march:

  1. A comprehensive civil rights bill from the present Congress, including provisions guaranteeing access to public accommodations, adequate and integrated education, protection of the right to vote, better housing, and authority for the Attorney General to seek injunctive relief when individuals (sic) constitutional rights are violated.
  2. Withholding of Federal funds from all programs in which discrimination exists.
  3. Desegregation of all public schools in 1963.
  4. A reduction in Congressional seats in states where citizens are disenfranchised.
  5. A stronger Executive Order prohibiting discrimination in all housing programs supported by Federal Funds.
  6. A massive Federal Program to train and place unemployed workers.
  7. An increase in the minimum wage to $2 an hour. The Federal minimum covering workers in interstate industries.
  8. Extension of the Fair Labor Standards Act to include exempted fields of employment.
  9.  A Federal Fair Employment Practices Act barring discrimination in all employments.

The legacy of the 1963 Freedom March centers around Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. You can view the full speech here. I also highly recommend reading Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Chairman John Lewis’s speech - now Congressman Lewis (D-Atlanta) - from the March on Washington. 

Take a moment today to consider where we’ve been, where we are today, how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go.

[Photos: National Archives; National Archives; Francis Miller/LIFE; USIA; LIFE; Library of Congress]

(Source: pantslessprogressive)

495 notes (via dionthesocialist & pantslessprogressive)Tags: News March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Freedom March Civil Rights Jobs MLK John Lewis History

Aug 23 '11
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.”
—

Martin Luther King, Jr (Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963)

still relevant

(via kingmeesha)

as i say, its you neutral folks who are making this mess work.

(via soydulcedeleche)

One of those other things MLK said…

(via liquornspice)

I want THIS on the side of my child elementary school.

(via uatjonc)

Applies to all oppressions, really.

(via christinathena)

(Source: zulupizzeria)

1,687 notes (via fsufeministalumna & zulupizzeria)Tags: MLK martin luther king jr civil rights movement civil rights