Mrs. Ida B. and Without Sanctuary Responses

1.)    As stated in the article, Mrs. Ida B. experienced her first fight when the conductor of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company asked her to give up her seat to a white man and directed her to the “Jim Crow” car. Once she had returned to Memphis after this encounter, she sued the railroad company.

2.)    Mrs. Ida B. three friends were lynched because their small grocery store had stole the loyal customers of other competing white businesses. So a group of white men took it upon themselves to “eliminate” the black competition (People’s Grocery Company), by murdering them. The city of Memphis did not take action, and since the African American citizens were outnumbered and without arms, they took it upon themselves to save their money and eventually leave town.

3.)    Wells continued her anti-lynching crusade in Chicago by writing Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, she help form several African American women reform organizations, and she also became a worker for women’s suffrage.

4.)    Wells was the first Black woman to run for public office in the United States.

1.)    Clyde Johnson

a.       Yreka, California

b.      August 3, 1935

c.       Accused of killing Jack Daw, a white man

2.)    Bennie Simmons

a.       Anadarko, Oklahoma

b.      June 13, 1913

c.       Accused of the murder of,  16 year old, Susie Church

3.)    Two Italian immigrants: Castenego Flcarrotta and Angelo Albano

a.       Tampa, Florida

b.      September 9, 1910

c.       Accused of union sympathy and of shooting J. F. Esterling, a book keeper for the West Tampa cigar factory.

4.)    Allen Brooks

a.       Dallas, Texas

b.      March 3, 1910

c.       Accused Brooks of being with his boss missing 3 year old daughter in the barn and found “evidence of brutal treatment.”

5.)    Dick Robertson

a.       Pritchard Station, Alabama

b.      October 6, 1906

c.       Accused of assaulting a white woman

6.)    Henry Lee

a.       Sailsbury, North Carolina

b.      August 3, 1906

c.       Accused of murdering members of the Lyerly family

Friday 9/20 responses

1.) The simple fact of what Harriet Tubman stood for and still stands for, along with what she did for our people, with out hesitation I can say that this video was unacceptable and disrespectful. Jamilah
Lamieux felt that the video was also very problematic on every level. She "it is a prodigy in how desensitize a lot of people are when it comes to history, because our culture is so use to casual disrespect of black woman." She thought the line of disrespect was clearly crossed by portraying Tubman in the manner that was done. On the other hand Hip-hop icon, Russel Simmons, from my perception, did not see any wrong in the video and the message it was trying to imply, that "162 years later, there is still tremendous injustice." Simultaneously, he understands how others took the video negatively and took it down with the statement "I would never condone violence against women in any form" followed by an apology for whoever he may have offended. Jeff Johnson's reaction to video was, that he felt like it was directly our fault for there being multiple generations of our people not having any historical context. And that is the only logically explanation for why someone would feel comfortable with making that video.

2.)  British ship's doctor, William Dunlop, discovered Sarah Baartman in Cape Town and decided to bring her over to Europe to display her as a "freak", a "scientific curiosity" and to make money from these display shows. It is not known what made her travel with him, but he offered to give her a sharing of what he made off of her. Baartman was given the nickname "Hottentot Venus", where "hottentot" took on derogatory connotations and "Venus" being a cruel reference to Baartman being "a reference to Baartman an object of admiration and adoration instead of the object of leering and abuse that she became." After her death a plaster cast of her body was made. Then came the removal of her skeleton and, after removing her brain and genitals, they were displayed in bottles at theMusee de l’Hommein Paris. Some years later, President Nelson Mandela requested that her remains be sent back home.

3.) The uproar came about when the Minister of Culture of Sweden was photographed cutting into a cake resembling an naked African Women, which also had blood-red sponge. According to Lena Liljeroth the cake was designed to highlight the issue of female genital mutilation and degrading stereotypes of black people through history.

4.) The similar tie between 2Chainz video and the Sweden controversy, is that they both involved a cake representing a woman of an African descent and that neither one of the parties were intentionally trying to be derogatory towards black women. This should not be a factor in what makes one or the other acceptable and unacceptable, but because 2Chainz displayed this image through the hip hop culture, we have taken the matter very lightly, opposed to how we would if another ethnicity did the same. The Minister of Culture of Sweden issue is a perfect example of how things are so quickly taken negatively and disrespectful when another ethnicity icons are women. This lady had to resign from her job for even being associated with cutting the cake, but 2chainz was rewarded in multiple ways for his ignorance.

Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune was a civil rights leader, educator, and government official who founded the National Council of Negro Women and Bethune Cookman University. She was the first African American woman to be involved in the White House, assisting four different presidents.
African Slavery
It is often miss conceptual where the origins of slavery came from, but the ancient Egyptians enslaved various groups of people: Semitic, Mediterranean, and Nubian blacks. Slavery also existed throughout sub-Saharan Africa and comprised a range of statuses and experiences, some of which were similar to chattel slavery.
Timbuktu
The city Timbuktu was founded around 811 and is known for their gatherings of scholars that would write in their manuscript books. In these manuscripts there would be the charting of stars and information about health, nutrition, and plants in the desert that should be used for curing certain diseases.
Mansa Musa
After putting ruler of the Mali Empire, Mansa Musa, worth into perspective of the 21^st century’s economics, he surpasses the current world’s richest man. Musa controlled the gold producing regions of Senegal and Boure, and was known throughout Africa, Europe, and Central Asia for his wealth and generous ways.

Meeting Me

Hi my name is Jasmine Knowles. I am a transfer student-athlete from Western Michigan University. I’m entering into my junior year here at Bethune-Cookman University. I’m majoring in Business Finance and have aspirations of getting a Masters Degree in Sports Management. With acquiring these two majors I plan to become a director of basketball operations for an NBA franchise.