Between 1810 and 1940, nearly 35 thousand people were exhibited in world fairs, colonial exhibitions, zoos, freak shows, circuses and reconstructed ethnic villages in Europe, America and Japan. Some 1.5 billion visitors attended these events.
USA
Ruby’s birth year coincided with the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, which ended racial segregation in public schools.
“They attack the victim, and then accuse the victim on attacking them”
The Alabama state police brutally attacked the marchers, using fire hoses, dogs, and tear gas
“It was just so much a slap in the face, a punch in the gut,” Mrs Semien told CBS News. “It was just belittling him. You know, that we can’t bury him because he’s Black.”
We want our people in America whose parents or grandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowed to establish a separate state or territory of their own–either on this continent or elsewhere.
Context: The USA had an open system of Apartheid that was not called Apartheid. The USA was not censured for their system in the way that South Africa (eventually) was.
Context: Barack Obama wins the 2008 US Presidential election, the first time that a person labelled Black has been elected to this position.
Context: Malcolm has left the Nation of Islam and founded his own organisation, The Muslim Mosque
Our women are taught a dress code of modesty that will lead to the practice of high morality.