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[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-was-black-americas-double-war/ by Henry Louis Gates PBS NEWS] | [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-was-black-americas-double-war/ by Henry Louis Gates PBS NEWS] | ||
We read about Robert Smalls, the slave who sailed himself to freedom and then became the first black Navy captain during the American Civil War, five years before the first Memorial Day. Black leaders felt that African Americans could make the strongest case for freedom and citizenship if they demonstrated their heroism and commitment to the country on the battlefield, as they had done since 5,000 black men fought for the Patriot cause in the American Revolution. No one put this more forcefully than Frederick Douglass did in the middle of the Civil War: “Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder, and bullets in his pocket, and there is no power on earth or under the earth which can deny that he has earned the right of citizenship in the United States.” | We read about Robert Smalls, the slave who sailed himself to freedom and then became the first black Navy captain during the American Civil War, five years before the first Memorial Day. Black leaders felt that African Americans could make the strongest case for freedom and citizenship if they demonstrated their heroism and commitment to the country on the battlefield, as they had done since 5,000 black men fought for the Patriot cause in the American Revolution. No one put this more forcefully than Frederick Douglass did in the middle of the Civil War: “Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder, and bullets in his pocket, and there is no power on earth or under the earth which can deny that he has earned the right of citizenship in the United States.” | ||
=====Nov. 5, 1917: Supreme Court Rules Against Segregated Housing===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/supreme-court-rules-against-segregated-housing/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | |||
On November 5, 1917, in the case of Buchanan v. Warley, the Supreme Court declared segregated housing to be unconstitutional. In an unanimous decision, the Court determined that a Louisville, Kentucky city ordinance limiting Black people from living in majority-white areas was in violation of the 14th Amendment and an infringement on individual property rights. Looking back years later, W. E. B. Du Bois declared the decision to have broken “the backbone of segregation.” | |||
