February 26th, the Peace Islands Institute hosted Sgt Anthony Cureton, President of the NAACP Bergen Chapter for Black History Month.
Sgt Anthony Cureton spoke about Black History.
Sgt Cureton started off by that the 1900’s shaped American culture. He briefly touched up on the NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization.
He read one of Carter G Woodson’s quotes “If a race as no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 said “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
He spoke about Emmet Louis, where he made a pass at a young lady and he was lynched for his actions at the age of 14. The case when to trial and there were no convictions.
Medgar Miley Evers, he took on the battle of the mission to fight the Mississippi Law School because they wouldn’t allow him in. Because he was an Activist on June 12 1963, he was killed in his drive way, the individual that killed him went on trial in 2003.
Three Activist individuals that fought for the Civil Rights movement went to Mississippi and disappeared. James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael “Mickey” Schwerner they were there fighting for civil rights.
In 1869 the 14th amendment granted equal protection of the Laws to African Americans.
In 1870 the 15th amendment established the rights of African American males to vote.
In the Civil rights act of 1875 it guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations public transportation and prohibited exclusion from jury service. In 1883 Supreme Court decided the act unconstitutional.
Isaac Wooding, who severed in World War 2, Batesville Police Department beat him because he wanted to use the bathroom at a particular restaurant. He went blind because of the beating.
He ended his presentation with some brief video presentations on the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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