Oct 18-24, 2021

10/19:

Cassius Marcellus Clay, an anti-slavery activist, and politician was born (1810-1903). Clay, a White southern aristocrat turned anti-slavery activist in Kentucky, liberated his own slaves and published an anti-slavery newspaper, True American. He prodded Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, though it is said he was critical of the post-Civil War policy of Reconstruction. Berea College, built-in 1855 on land donated by Clay, was the first interracial, coeducational college in the South.

Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War, by Ira Berlin, Barbara Fields, Steven Miller, Joseph Reidy, and Leslie Rowland. Free at Last brings together some of the most remarkable correspondence ever written by Americans. These letters, personal testimonies, official transcripts, and other records convey the struggle of Black men and women to overthrow the slave system, to aid the Union cause, and to give meaning to their newly-won freedom in a war-torn nation. (H) https://lnkd.in/egj5VStV

10/22:

National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality:
The coalition asked that we wear black on this day to honor those whose lives have been stolen by police brutality. www.october22.org

The Day Tajon Got Shot: The Teen Writers of Beacon House. An empathetic journey exploring the different perspectives of each community member - the victim, the police office, the family, the friends - examine what it means to be the human on all sides of this event. bit.ly/2PArMXC

Other Books:
We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility. bit.ly/3sTMZua
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. bit.ly/3sUMYGr

10/24:

150th memorial of the Chinese Massacre of 1871 -the largest lynching in US history.

Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit: www.asianamtoolkit.org

Humanizing Asian Americans in the classroom through children's literature: bit.ly/31Oas43