In 1843- Abolitionist and feminist Sojourner Truth begins antislavery crusade in the south
In 1921- Black Wall Street, one of the most influential all-Black communities in America was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by an angry white mob
To Inspire You
If the problem of the twentieth century was, in W. E. B. Du Bois’s famous words, ‘the problem of the color line,’ then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the refusal to acknowledge the causes and consequences of enduring racial stratification