Black People Politics : 50 Years After March on Washington Many Americans Are Still Falling Behind: Urban League President

Its quite an impressive list, please take the time and review the entire document:


suggested reading:

A Century of Service: A History of the National Urban League

In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court declared its support of Louisiana‟s „separate but equal‟ segregation law in the Plessey v. Ferguson case. This decision to uphold the brutal economic, social and political system of oppression in the South led to a flood of African Americans to move northward, known as The Great Migration...

In order to capitalize on those opportunities, successfully adapt to urban life and reduce the pervasive discrimination, the new immigrants arriving from the South required help. The
Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes (now the National Urban League) was established on September 29, 1910 in New York City to provide assistance. Central to the organization were two remarkable people, founders Dr. George Edmund Haynes, who would
become the Committee‟s first Executive Secretary and Mrs. Ruth Standish Baldwin ...
What can and should we do as individuals and as a community to correct this trend for the future?
 
What can and should we do as individuals and as a community to correct this trend for the future?



... Exercise Agape Love, especially for these:



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Students with the Washington Dupont Park Adventist School take part in a 50th anniversary commemoration of Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech on Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., on Wednesday.


http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...on-to-commemorate-mlks-dream-anniversary?lite
 
I dont know about "Americans" in general but as African Americans we should be about this;




... Or do you mean this:




Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) 1965

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Malcolm X at the Founding Rally of the OAAU,
Audubon Ballroom, New York City, 1964

Image Ownership: Public Domain
African American self-determination. He also sought OAAU representation on the OAU.

The OAAU was designed to encompass all peoples of African origin in the Western hemisphere, as well those on the African continent. Malcolm X insisted that progress for African Americans was intimately tied to progress in Africa, and outlined a platform of five fronts for this progress called "The Basic Unity Program." This program called for Restoration, Reorientation, Education, Economic Security, and Self-Defense as a means of promoting Pan-African unity and interests. With a strong focus on education as the primary means of repairing the damages of slavery, economic discrimination, and physical violence directed towards African Americans, the OAAU hoped to foster pan-African consciousness. Among the more controversial positions taken by the OAAU was the suggestion that leaders of African states held more legitimate political power for African Americans than did the American government.



suggested reading:
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/organization-afro-american-unity-oaau-1965
 

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