"From the forced assimilation campaigns designed to erase #Indigenous cultures to the all-encompassing white supremacist terror of the #JimCrow South, it was all too easy to think of ways the #GenocideConvention could be deployed against the US."

How American Racism Sabotaged the World’s Fight Against #Genocide

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/us-genocide-convention-history-gaza/

#UNGenocideConvention #USpol #UShistory #slavery #SettlerColonialism #WhiteSupremacism #WhiteSupremacy #Palestine #Gaza #ColonialViolence @palestine

#philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker signed a law making civil rights trailblazer Caroline LeCount the first Black woman to have a city street named after her. Better yet, the street had previously been named after Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, the author of the Dred Scott decision in 1857. The city is currently renaming all of the streets named after him. #ushistory #Heroes #sheroes #civilrights #history https://www.phillytrib.com/news/local_news/philly-mayor-signs-into-law-making-caroline-lecount-first-black-woman-with-city-streets-in/article_ca1d0d8d-a119-535a-afd6-8c01774ed10f.html

64 years ago on this day in 1960, 6-year old Ruby Bridges walked into the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, escorted by 4 federal marshals and made history by becoming the first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South.

Her courage and poise paved the way for the fight for Civil Rights and Justice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges
#RubyBridges #segregation #integration #CivilRights #USpolitics #USHistory
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