Black History is US History
Reposted from
LanaQuest aka RosaSparks
This week in 1909, the NAACP was founded by Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, and others in NYC in response to the brutal race massacre in Springfield, Illinois, in August of 1908.
A white mob destroyed Black neighborhoods, burned businesses, and lynched Black men.
A white mob destroyed Black neighborhoods, burned businesses, and lynched Black men.
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