Taking Black history to heart – The Forward
As Black History Month ends, what lessons stick? What will you take to heart?
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As Black History Month ends, what lessons stick? What will you take to heart?
Excerpt from the memoir of Black Jewish SNCC leader Charles McDew.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article, which was published April 9, 2021. In a cramped cell in a South Carolina prison camp, 22-year-old African American activist Thomas Gaither wrote, “I am presently in deep contemplation as to just what our nation and our particular region of the nation prizes most.” It was Thursday, Feb. 23, 1961, and Gaither was serving a 30-day term of hard labor on a road gang for what police called “trespassing,” when he and students fr...