Michael Brown
“Hands Up Don’t Shoot”
Eric Gardner
“I Can’t Breathe”
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By Terri Mae Owens
Rutgers University Graduate BA History/Political Science
2011
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
Malcolm X
1960’s
“On July 16, 1964, a white off-duty New York City police lieutenant fatally shot a black ninth-grader in Harlem on allegations that the teenager had a knife and was lunging at the officer.”
“While details of exactly what happened that day are still hotly contested and debated, it would seem that the incident was racially motivated.”
50 Years After Harlem Riot, Police Brutality Still A Concern
“The Fatal Shooting of Powell Stirred Negro Rioters To Race Through Harlem Streets Carrying Pictures of Lt. Gilligan”
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“A black student, 15 year old James Powell, shot by an off-duty Police Officer on July 16, 1964 sparked several days of rioting in Harlem, New York. The violence and demands from Civil Rights leaders that the city act to protect the Negroes, prompted the mayor’s office to order a study of complaints of police brutality.”
“Incident at 133rd St. and Seventh Ave. last night as Harlem was torn by disorder for second time / World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick De Marsico.”
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“Part of crowd in Harlem chants and taunts police on Lenox Avenue last night / World Telegram & Sun photo by Stanley Wolfson. 1964”
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Atlanta policeman drags African American high school student Taylor Washington to paddy wagon during demonstration against restaurant segregation, Atlanta, Georgia
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“Detroit, Michigan. Police officers removing sit-down strikers from the Yale and Towne Manufacturing plant”
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“Demonstrators, marching in a downtown area, with flags and placards in support of the war in Vietnam, police on horseback in background”
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. Mounted police and whites 1942”
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“Pennsylvania motor police on duty at the King Farm during the strike of workers against seventeen cents an hour wages. Near Morrisville, Pennsylvania”
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“Policeman confronts a group at Seventh Ave. and 126th St. during renewed violence in Harlem / World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick De Marsico.”
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“Washington, D.C. Auxiliary police at a weekly meeting”
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. Moving vans convoyed by police department moving Negroes’ furniture into Sojourner Truth 1942”
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. Furniture vans under police convoy 1942.”
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. Home guard troops carrying mess kits”
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. Home guard troops carrying mess kits”
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Detroit, Michigan. Rioting at the Sojourner Truth housing project
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. Police arresting a Negro 1942”
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. Arrested white real estate operator who had been inciting the riot 1942.”
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. Home guard soldiers on duty’ 1942”
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. First Negro family moving into Sojourner Truth home 1942”
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. First Negro family moving into Sojourner Truth homes”
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. Police arresting a Negro”
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. White picket line”
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.Sn federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. Sign with American flag “We want white tenants in our white community,” directly opposite the housing project 1942″
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. White pickets”
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“Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. Back view of typical newspaper photographer 1942”
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“Black Panther Convention, Lincoln Memorial. Photograph showing a man on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial holding a banner for the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention; statue of Lincoln in the background.”
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“Black Panther Convention, Lincoln Memorial 1970′
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Hillary Clinton: “There Is Something Profoundly Wrong In Our Criminal Justice System”
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-mysterious-death-of-freddie-gray/391119/
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-freddie-gray-20150419-story.html#page=1
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/27/freddie-gray-funeral_n_7150750.html
President Obama Speech on Baltimore Riots
4/29/15
Nina Simone
“Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood 1964”
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
Nelson Mandela
Bryan Stevenson
“We have shot, hanged, gassed, electrocuted, and lethally injected hundreds of people to carry out legally sanctioned executions. Thousands more await their execution on death row.” Stevens, 15.
“Some states have no minimum age for prosecuting children as adults; we’ve sent a quarter million kids to adult jails and prisons to serve long prison terms, some under the age of twelve. For years we’ve been the only country in the world that condemns children to life in prison without parole; nearly three thousand juveniles have been sentenced to die in prison.”
Bryan Stevenson, “Just Mercy: A Story of Mercy and Redemption” p. 15
“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”
Nelson Mandela
Bryan Stevenson
“My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. Finally, I’ve come to believe that the true measure of our commitment to justice, the character of our society, our commitment to the rule of law, fairness, and equality cannot be measured by how we treat the rich, the powerful, the privileged, and the respected among us. The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”
Bryan Stevenson, “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption” p. 18
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedoms of others.”
Nelson Mandela
Over 50 Years Later
2015
Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson is an attorney, a professor of law at New York University Law School, and the Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, in Montgomery Alabama. He advocates for and he fights for the dignity and legal rights of the poor and incarcerated.
His opinion, concerning the police shooting of Michael Brown, in Ferguson Missouri, was solicited. His response can be viewed below.
Police Harassment
“People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say “We want peace, we want stability, we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.”
Nelson Mandela
Berkeley Students Respond to Eric Gardner Verdict
Riots After Martin Luther King Assassination
“There is No passion to be found in playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
Nelson Mandela
“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learned how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”
Nelson Mandela
“We are all Implicated when we allow others to be mistreated”
Bryan Stevenson
Protests in New York Eric Gardner/Michael Brown
Miami Protest Eric Gardner/Michael Brown Verdicts
Protest in Atlanta
North Carolina Protests Eric Gardner
“I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.”
Nelson Mandela
RGB – Like It Is With Gil Noble
Assata Shakur
Eyes Of The Rainbow – a documentary film with Assata Shakur
Democracy Now
Assata Shakur
Marilyn Mosby
“No One Is Above The Law”
Marilyn Mosby
“Flashback: A Look Back at the Church Committee’s Investigation into CIA, FBI Misuse of Power”
DEMOCRACY NOW!
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/24/flashback_a_look_back_at_the
Assata Shakur: What Does New U.S.-Cuba Pact Mean for Exiled Black Panther Wanted in New Jersey?
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/19/assata_shakur_what_does_new_us
2PAC SHAKUR – DEAR MAMA
Fred Hampton Assassination
Nina Simone
“Revolution”
“There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to keep talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.”
Nelson Mandela
Historically, blacks were never looking for violence, but black lives mattered and they were forced to protect the lives of black people.
“We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.”
Nelson Mandela
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
Eric Gardner
Red Stains On Blue Uniforms
In Memory of Walter Scott
North Charleston, South Carolina
Walter Scott was shot in the back while fleeing North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager, on April 8, 2015, who fired eight rounds of bullets at Scott’s fleeing body. Five of the bullets hit Scott and killed him.
Unlike the incidents surrounding the killing of Michael Brown, Ferguson, Missouri; North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey and North Charleston Police Chief, Eddie Driggers immediately denounced the actions of Officer Slager.
http://www.counton2.com/story/28779913/community-organizers-held-a-peaceful-march-saturday
http://abcnews.go.com/US/walter-scott-death-leaves-unanswered-questions-sc-police/story?id=30224199
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article18256391.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/09/michael-slager-excessive-force_n_7032212.html
Riots in Baltimore
Freddy Gray
Huey P Newton And The Black Panther Party 