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OK, but the next time you go to a picnic, church get together, or a break room, and unfold that lawn chair or a wooden one, or a steel one, remember a black person invented that design!
"Black History in Nazi Germany"...when African-American allied soldiers were caught behind enemy lines during the war racial abuse was inflicted on top of their prisoner-of-war status.
The Black experience during the Third Reich is a missing one, mainly due to the comparatively small number of casualties compared to the Jewish loss. Many stories of what happened during the Nazi regime are brought out by author Hans Massaquoi in his book Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany 1999. Yet the Black history of these times also includes the brutal treatment of the Herero people before WW II in the (then) German colony of southwest Namibia.
Additionally when African-American allied soldiers were caught behind enemy lines during the war racial abuse was inflicted on top of their prisoner-of-war status.
In 1937, nearly 385 Black German children disappeared with out a trace.
In Europe the memory of the Third Reich still induces pain. Annually on Veterans Day millions of families all over Europe still mourn lost loved ones, many of whom were Black.
Dr. Eliza Ann Grier lived part of her life as a slave in Atlanta. She later found her freedom in medicine. In 1897, she became the first black woman licensed to practice medicine in Georgia. But the journey wasn’t easy.
After emancipation, Grier became a teacher and studied at Fisk University in Nashville. But she wanted to be a doctor. In 1890, Grier wrote to the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, asking the dean if there was any way for an emancipated slave to receive assistance to join the profession.
Grier was admitted to the medical college, but with a challenging condition. To pay the tuition, she was required to alternate each year of medical study with a year of picking cotton. It took her seven years to get her degree and she graduated in 1897.
The next year Grier returned to Atlanta where she set up her practice. She asked one thing of the city’s medical community - for an ‘an even chance’ in the profession. But after just four years, Dr. Grier died and her medial practice closed.
Nat King Cole crowns a very short list of the most identifiable and memorable voices in American music. This ground breaking American icon’s impact continues to cross the world’s cultural and political boundaries. The story of his life is a study in success in the face of adversity and the triumph of talent over the ignorance of prejudice.
Cole took racism on the chin, once attacked on stage in Birmingham, Alabama (after which he stuck to the promise that he would never return to the South) and refusing to move when he met objections from white neighbours having bought a house in fashionable Beverly Hills. Significantly, Cole became the first black television presenter but was forced to abandon the role in 1957, when the show could not find him a national sponsor.
Nat Cole’s “unforgettable” voice, with its honeyed velvet tones in a rich, easy drawl, is one of the great moments in music, and saw him accepted in a “white” world. With high profile friends, such as Frank Sinatra, his position entailed compromises that gained him the hostility of civil rights activists in the early 1960s. But Cole was a brave figure in a period when racial prejudice was at its most demeaning, Cole suffered the indignity of being “whited up” for some of his TV performances, to make him more “accessible” to a white audience. Before his death from lung cancer in 1965, Cole was planning a production of James Baldwin’s play, “Amen Corner,” displaying an interest in radical black literature at odds with his image as a sugary balladeer.
"Black History in Nazi Germany"...when African-American allied soldiers were caught behind enemy lines during the war racial abuse was inflicted on top of their prisoner-of-war status.
The Black experience during the Third Reich is a missing one, mainly due to the comparatively small number of casualties compared to the Jewish loss. Many stories of what happened during the Nazi regime are brought out by author Hans Massaquoi in his book Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany 1999. Yet the Black history of these times also includes the brutal treatment of the Herero people before WW II in the (then) German colony of southwest Namibia.
Additionally when African-American allied soldiers were caught behind enemy lines during the war racial abuse was inflicted on top of their prisoner-of-war status.
After WWI, there were Congolese troops (who fought for France) occupying the Alsace region of Germany, When the inevitable happened, the offspring of African and German romances were later forcibly sterilized when the Nazis came to power.
Black soldiers were executed as part of the Malmedy massacre in Germany in WWII.
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However, most of the tiny non-white population in Germany at that time were children of German settlers and missionaries in the former German colonies in Africa and Melanesia, who had married local women or had had children with them out of wedlock. With the loss of the German colonial empire after World War I, some of these colonists returned to Germany with their "mixed-race" families.[need quotation to verify] While the black population of Germany at the time of the Third Reich was small at 20,000 - 25,000 in a population of over 65 million,[7] the Nazis decided to take action against those in the Rhineland. They despised black culture, which they considered inferior, and even sought to prohibit "traditionally black" musical genres like jazz as being "corrupt negro music".[need quotation to verify] No official laws were enacted against the black population, or even against the children of mixed parentage, since they were the offspring of marriages and informal unions from before the Nuremberg laws of September 1935 which prohibited miscegenation. The law also deprived persons of mixed parentage their freedom to marry at all, or at least the spouse of their choice by banning future mixed marriages between Aryans and others. Instead, a group named "Commission Number 3" was created to resolve the problem of the "Rhineland Bastards" with the aim of preventing their further procreation in German society. Organized under Dr. Eugen Fischer of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, it was decided that the children would be sterilized under the 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring.[8]
The program began in 1937, when local officials were asked to report on all "Rhineland Bastards" under their jurisdiction.[8] All together, some 400 children of mixed parentage were arrested and sterilized.[8] This order applied only in the Rhineland. Other African-Germans were unaffected.[9] According to Susan Samples, the Nazis went to great lengths to conceal their sterilization and abortion program.[8]
Nat Turner is one of my favorite historical figures...
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Nathaniel "Nat" Turner (October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831) was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths and at least 100 black deaths.[2] He gathered supporters in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner was convicted, sentenced to death, and hanged. In the aftermath, the state executed 56 blacks accused of being part of Turner's slave rebellion. Two hundred blacks were also beaten and killed by white militias and mobs reacting with violence.[3] Across Virginia and other southern states, state legislators passed new laws prohibiting education of slaves and free blacks, restricting rights of assembly and other civil rights for free blacks, and requiring white ministers to be present at black worship services.
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