Lessons From the Past: Black Organizing Under Jim Crow
Schedule
Sun, 08 Dec, 2024 at 02:30 pm
Location
Cumberland County Public Library Headquarters, Pate Room | Fayetteville, NC
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Join Fayetteville Freedom For All for a community teach-in with local historian, Joel Cook. This is a free event and light refreshments will be provided.After their emancipation in the Civil War, Black Americans found themselves confronted by intense backlash from white supremacists all over the country. They were terrorized by gangs, barred from communal spaces, and denied access to resources in the hopes that they would eventually die out.
But they didn't. Instead, Black Americans organized together, creating their own infrastructure for fellowship, physical protection, healthcare, and wealth among other things. These benevolent societies, as they were known, helped sustain Black communities through the dark times of Jim Crow and provided structure to the Civil Rights Movement that freed them once again.
As many Americans contemplate the loss of civil rights and other protections today, those previous generations provide a model for what we can do to keep us safe and make it sustainable for now and future generations to come.
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Fayetteville Freedom for All is a grassroots community-based organization dedicated to the fight for human rights and equality for all. Our mission is to educate, inspire, and recruit the next generation of activists and allies organizers to fight for a future where everyone has access to healthcare, housing, a living wage, clean water and air, equal justice, bodily autonomy, fully-funded public education, and marriage equality. We create systemic and structural change, centering impacted community members and partnering with local & state organizations, non-profits, mutual aid groups, workers unions, and like-minded politicians around Cumberland County and North Carolina.
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Where is it happening?
Cumberland County Public Library Headquarters, Pate Room, 300 Maiden Ln, Fayetteville, NC 28301-5032, United States,Fayetteville, North CarolinaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
