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This series of articles is a thoughtful probe into a unique time in America, revealing complex truths about persistent questions we have about “race relations and class identity” embedded into the fabric of our shared history and existing reality. Giving clues into the possible source of the strategy behind the Populist, Economic Nationalist, White Nationalist and Bannonism movements currently dominating our politics.

Reference: Steve Bannon Interview on Charlie Rose:  September 11, 2017

Part 1- “I do not intend to weary the Senate, but I cannot allow this occasion to pass without saying that to me it is the most terrible moment of my legislative life. To me, Mr. President it brings more anxiety, more fear than any moment since I entered public life.” (-Read More: Click Here –>  “Slavery”– )

Part 2- “The degradation and miseries of the Reconstruction Period is being used as a plea to frighten poor whites, which Tillman says is the key reason why white men must come at the constitutional convention.” (-Read More: Click Here –>  “Trust Me”–  )

Part 3-  “The money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed.”  (-Read More: Click Here –> “Honor Better than Gold”–  )

Part 4-   “They couldn’t afford for the thousands of silver voters to stand together. So it became necessary to raise the scarecrow of the negro and appeal to the lowest and bases passions and prejudice of mankind in order to frighten the people and call their attention from the hypocrisy and case treachery of these Democratic bosses.” (Read More: Click Here –>  “Fear the Negro Campaign”– )

Part 5- – “The one thing that saved the Southerners from immediate bitterness and animosity was that they knew that it was not the Negroes but the Federal Government who held them in subjection.” (Read More: Click Here –> ” The Negro Problem”– )

Part 6-  “While a certain percentage of negroes after the war were house servants, their was also a percentage who had the knowledge and held positions of those who were educated and skilled.” (Read More: Click Here –>  “Data and Stats”-)

Part 7-   “It is here Mr. Kennedy’s reference to the Negro educator “Booker T Washington” makes his most definitive statement, “that if African’s were not discovered white slavery would have continued.” (Read More: Click Here –>  “The Redemptioners”--)

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Mary White Ovington (April 11, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York – July 15, 1951) a suffragette, socialist, unitarian, journalist, and co-founder of the NAACP.

Her parents, members of the Unitarian Church were supporters of women’s rights and had been involved in anti-slavery movement. Educated at Packer Collegiate Institute and Radcliffe College, Ovington became involved in the campaign for civil rights in 1890 after hearing Frederick Douglass speak in a Brooklyn church.

In 1895 she helped found the Greenpoint Settlement in Brooklyn. Appointed head of the project the following year, Ovington remained until 1904 when she was appointed fellow of the Greenwich House Committee on Social Investigations. Over the next five years she studied employment and housing problems in black Manhattan. During her investigations she met William Du Bois, an African American from Harvard University, and she was introduced to the founding members of the Niagara Movement.

Influenced by the ideas of William Morris, Ovington joined the Socialist Party in 1905, where she met people such as Daniel De Leon, Asa Philip Randolph, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman and Jack London, who argued that racial problems were as much a matter of class as of race. She wrote for radical journals and newspapers such as, The Masses, New York Evening Post, and The Call. She also worked with Ray Stannard Baker and influenced the content of his book, Following the Color Line (1908).

On September 3, 1908 she read an article written by socialist William English Walling entitled “Race War in the North” in The Independent. Walling described a massive race riot directed at black residents in the hometown of Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois that led to seven deaths, 40 homes and 24 businesses destroyed, and 107 indictments against rioters. Walling ended the article by calling for a powerful body of citizens to come to the aid blacks. Ovington responded to the article by writing Walling and meeting at his apartment in New York City along with social worker Dr. Henry Moskowitz. The group decided to launch a campaign by issuing a “call” for a national conference on the civil and political rights of African-Americans on the centennial of Lincoln’s birthday, February 12, 1909. Many responded to the “call” that eventually led to the formation of the National Negro Committee that held its first meeting in New York on May 31 and June 1, 1909. By May, 1910 the National Negro Committee and attendants, at its second conference, organized a permanent body known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) where Ovington was appointed as its executive secretary. Early members included Josephine Ruffin, Mary Talbert, Mary Church Terrell, Inez Milholland, Jane Addams, George Henry White, William Du Bois, Charles Edward Russell, John Dewey, Charles Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, Fanny Garrison Villard, Oswald Garrison Villard and Ida Wells-Barnett.

The following year she attended the Universal Races Congress in London. Ovington remained active in the struggle for women’s suffrage and as a pacifist opposed America’s involvement in the First World War. During the war Ovington supported Asa Philip Randolph and his magazine, The Messenger, which campaigned for black civil rights.

After the war Ovington served the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as board member, executive secretary and chairman. The NAACP fought a long legal battle against segregation and racial discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting and transportation. They appealed to the Supreme Court to rule that several laws passed by southern states were unconstitutional and won three important judgments between 1915-1923 concerning voting rights and housing.

She wrote several books and articles including a study of black Manhattan, Half a Man (1911), Status of the Negro in the United States (1913), Socialism and the Feminist Movement (1914), an anthology for black children, The Upward Path (1919), biographical sketches of prominent African Americans, Portraits in Color (1927), an autobiography, Reminiscences (1932) and a history of the NAACP, The Walls Come Tumbling Down (1947).

Ovington retired as a board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1947 and in doing so, ended decades of service with the organization. She died in 1951.

Source: NAACP HISTORY: MARY WHITE OVINGTON

Mrs. Mary “White” Ovington was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1865, she was a suffragette, socialist, Unitarian, journalist and a vice president and co-founder of the NAACP, National Association Advancement of Colored People. As the board member, executive secretary and chairman. With her influence The NAACP fought a long legal battle against segregation and racial discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting and transportation. Through books and articles she shares perspectives on the universal relevance of the need to “campaign for black civil rights” because she sees the challenges beyond racial identity as a human rights issues.

Mrs. Ovington wrote a profound article, in The Crisis magazine of January 1915, titled “Segregation”, which was fifty years after the end of slavery and forty years before the Civil Rights movement, placing her perspective dead center in a much bigger plan. The case she makes for “civil rights” and how “black people” should be treated, was extremely progressive back then and would be highly controversial now, especially from a white woman.

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Segregation

By Mary “White” Ovington

(The Crisis, January 1915)

Repost: 3/11/2018

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Truth

The face of truth is open
The eyes of truth are bright
The lips of truth are ever closed
The head of truth is upright

The Breast of truth stands forward
The gaze of truth is straight
Truth has neither fear nor doubt
Truth has patience to wait

The words of truth are touching
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The law of truth is simple
All you sow you reap

The soul of truth is flaming
The heart of truth is warm
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And firm through rain and storm

Facts are only it’s shadow
Truth stands above all sin
Great be the battle of life
Truth in the end shall win

The image of truth is the cross
Wisdom’s message is it’s rod
The sign of truth is Christ
And the soul of truth is God

The life of truth is eternal
Immortal is it’s past
The power of truth shall endure
Truth shall hold to the last