by Sandra | Mar 16, 2019 | Black Leaders
Fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin was an active member of the local NAACP Youth Council lead by Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama. On March 2, 1955, Colvin tested the cities’ segregated busing ordinance by refusing to give up her seat to a white rider. She was...
by Sandra | Mar 15, 2019 | Education
Anthony Johnson Did you know that a black man, Anthony Johnson, won a court case in Northampton County Court in 1655 to keep his slave, John Casor, and the ruling became the first legal sanction of slavery in America? Johnson arrived in Jamestown in 1619, was treated...
by Sandra | Mar 12, 2019 | Education, Revisionism
The Yocum African-American History Association (YAAHA) is dedicated to the restoration and preservation of the events which shaped the lives and contributions of African-Americans. YAAHA counteracts the exploitation of revisionism caused by a general lack of public...
by Sandra | Mar 9, 2019 | Revisionism
Revisionist historians exploit the general lack of knowledge of the public in order to promote their agenda. Sometimes errors are written and repeated as fact, but it is also true that more sinister motives are used to promote and change history about movements and...
by Sandra | Mar 6, 2019 | Black Leaders, Education
Eric Foner compiled an excellent reference book, Freedom’s Lawmakers, that contains collective biographies of more than 1500 black Reconstruction lawmakers. Democratic ex-Confederate leaders painted blacks as lazy, ignorant, incompetent buffoons, to undermine their...
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