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I wanna get my hands on this book sooo bad
it goes for $159 on Amazon ._.
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This Bridge Called My Back - Writings by Radical Women of Color
I don’t care what gender studies or queer theory class you’ve taken, you need to read this book, but be warned, it is a rare find and might expensive. It contains several essays by womanists discussing their experience, racism, poverty, how racism pervaded the feminist movement in the early 1980s and most importantly the individual experiences of asian pacific, black, american indian and latina/chicana women. This words you find in this book and the truths that will make your soul sick are imperrative for understanding the history of racism, feminism, systematic oppression and white privilege. These are stories that have, even today, been swept under the rug and out of sight.
You need to read this fucking book.
i just finished this, it was fantastic. i bought it on half.com for about $10.
so many of the books/documents I’ve been reading recently have referenced this book like crazy, I really want to find it!
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Today marks the anniversary of the Emmett Till murder 56 years ago.
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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:
- 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.
- Withholding of Federal funds from all programs in which discrimination exists.
- Desegregation of all public schools in 1963.
- A reduction in Congressional seats in states where citizens are disenfranchised.
- A stronger Executive Order prohibiting discrimination in all housing programs supported by Federal Funds.
- A massive Federal Program to train and place unemployed workers.
- An increase in the minimum wage to $2 an hour. The Federal minimum covering workers in interstate industries.
- Extension of the Fair Labor Standards Act to include exempted fields of employment.
- 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]
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Yevdokiya Nikolayevna Zavaliy was a seventeen year old nurse during WWII. When she was mistaken for a man on the field, she decided to go along with it, and fought in several battles. Her superiors appointed her as the leader of a reconnaissance squad, and she became a sergeant and was seriously wounded (over the course of the war, she’d be wounded four times). She retained command even after her gender was discovered, and her machine gun platoon continued to participate in heavy fighting on the front lines—the Germans nicknamed her “Frau Black Death.” She died in 2010, a member of four military orders and the recipient of over 40 medals of honor.
(More here: Yevdokiya Zavaliy: the Woman Hero of WWII | English Russia)
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