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Eric Burin
Slavery & the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society
Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, 2005 (more…)
Counter-Currents
Tag: Liberia
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A new off-Broadway musical called Black No More depicts a machine that turns black people white. Photo credit: Monique Carboni/The New Group
A new off-Broadway musical called Black No More depicts a machine that turns black people white. Photo credit: Monique Carboni/The New Group
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Liberia Celebrates 200 Years of Magnificent Failure
To assert — as does the entire modern racial-justice-industrial complex without any hesitation or equivocation — that any disparities regarding income, health, and longevity between black and white Americans are due to white maleficence is to ignore how blacks fare when they are entirely quarantined from the foul clutches and nostril-searing stench of white supremacy. (more…)
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Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo
Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo
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The sedition trials of Gordon and others began in 1943. What communications there were with the Japanese prior to Pearl Harbor reflected an interest among blacks for Japan as a rising “colored” nation. The defeat of Russia in 1905 had been observed by restive colored races, and then the fratricide of World War I. (more…)
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Mittie Maude Lena “M. M. L.” Gordon.
Mittie Maude Lena “M. M. L.” Gordon.
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During the tumult of the 1930s, there emerged a mass movement among American Negroes to separate from the USA and reestablish their roots in Africa. In contrast to the NAACP and the National Urban League, the Peace Movement of Ethiopia, aka Ethiopia Pacific Movement (EPM), did not receive sponsorship from Jacob Schiff, Lehman, Rockefeller, Carnegie, et al, but subsisted on nickels and dimes from its supporters. (more…)
