Malcolm X

Sunday February 22 marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X

"We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens until we are first recognized as humans. ... The American “system” (political, economic and social) was produced from the enslavement of the black man, and this present “system” is capable only of perpetuating that enslavement."

And he said this in 1965!!

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In Honor Of Black History Month....

Fannie Lou Hamer

10/6/1917-3/14/1977

Fannie Lou Hamer was a civil rights activist who helped African Americans register to vote. Hamer co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964. She was born on October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi. In 1962, she met civil rights activists who encouraged blacks to register to vote, and soon became active in the movement. She also worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which fought racial segregation and injustice in the South. Hamer died in 1977.

Famous quotes:

 "Nobody's free until everybody's free."

On northern racism, speaking in New York:  "The man'll shoot you in the face in Mississippi, and you turn around he'll shoot you in the back here."

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