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African-American Leftism
African-American leftism refers to left-wing political currents that have developed among various African-American communities in the United States of America. These currents are active around social issues, and often call for an African-American led movement that aims at bringing about some form of socialism between the African-American community and White community and other minority groups. History Organizations *African Blood Brotherhood *Black Liberation Army *Black Panthers *Black Radical Congress * Black Socialists in America *Coalition of Black Trade Unionists *Detroit Revolutionary Union Movement *League of Revolutionary Black Workers *National Brotherhood of Workers of America *Sojourner Truth Organization *W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs of America *Black Alliance for Peace *Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) See also *Civil rights movement (1896–1954) *Afro-Caribbean leftism *The Communist Party USA and African-Americans *Black conservatism in the United States Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afro-Caribbean Leftism
Afro-Caribbean leftism refers to Left-wing politics, left-wing political currents that have developed among various Afro-Caribbean, African-Caribbean communities in the Caribbean, the United States of America, France, Great Britain, or anywhere else they have chosen to settle. Spenceans During the early nineteenth century, the Jamaican-born activists William Davidson (conspirator), William Davidson and Robert Wedderburn (radical), Robert Wedderburn were drawn to the politics of Thomas Spence. Interwar era Many Afro-Caribbean soldiers who served in the British West Indies Regiment (BWIR) became left-wing activists after the war during the interwar era. While serving in Western Front (World War II), European and Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, Middle Eastern fronts of the World War I, First World War, experiences of discrimination from White people, white servicemen inspired a resurgence in Nationalism#Anti-colonial, anti-colonial nationalism among the British West Indies, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Revolutionary Black Workers
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) formed in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan. The League united a number of different Revolutionary Union Movements (RUMs) that were growing rapidly across the auto industry and other industrial sectors—industries in which Black workers were concentrated in Detroit in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The formation of the League was an attempt to form a more cohesive political organ guided by the principles of Black liberation and Marxism-Leninism in order to gain political power and articulate the specific concerns of Black workers through political action. While the League was only active for a short period of time, it was a significant development in a time of increasing militancy and political action by Black workers and in the context of both the Black liberation and Marxist-Leninist movements in the United States. Factors Leading to the Creation of the League There were a number of factors, particularly social and political develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African-American Leftism
African-American leftism refers to left-wing political currents that have developed among various African-American communities in the United States of America. These currents are active around social issues, and often call for an African-American led movement that aims at bringing about some form of socialism between the African-American community and White community and other minority groups. History Organizations *African Blood Brotherhood *Black Liberation Army *Black Panthers *Black Radical Congress * Black Socialists in America *Coalition of Black Trade Unionists *Detroit Revolutionary Union Movement *League of Revolutionary Black Workers *National Brotherhood of Workers of America *Sojourner Truth Organization *W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs of America *Black Alliance for Peace *Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) See also *Civil rights movement (1896–1954) *Afro-Caribbean leftism *The Communist Party USA and African-Americans *Black conservatism in the United States Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Conservatism In The United States
Black conservatism in the United States is a political and social movement rooted in communities of African descent that aligns largely with the American conservative movement, including the Christian right. Black conservatism emphasizes social conservatism, traditionalism, patriotism, capitalism, and free markets. What characterizes a "black conservative" has changed over time, and the people listed below do not necessarily share the same political philosophy. Influential Black conservatives in the early 21st century who held office include Senator Tim Scott, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and Cabinet secretaries Ben Carson, Condoleezza Rice, and Colin Powell. Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Armstrong Williams, Walter Williams and Candace Owens are among the most influential black conservative political commentators. Overview Beliefs One of the main characteristics of black conservatism is its emphasis on personal choice and responsibilities above socioeconomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Communist Party USA And African-Americans
The Communist Party USA, ideologically committed to foster a socialist revolution in the United States, played a significant role in defending the civil rights of African Americans during its most influential years of the 1930s and 1940s. In that period, the African-American population was still concentrated in the South, where it was largely disenfranchised, excluded from the political system, and oppressed under Jim Crow laws. By 1940, nearly 1.5 million African Americans had migrated out of the South to northern and midwestern cities and become urbanized, but they were often met with discrimination, especially among working-class ethnic whites whom they competed for jobs and housing. The labor struggle continued, and many unions discriminated against black people. Additional migration of another 5 million African Americans out of the South continued during and after World War II, with many going to West Coast cities, where the defense industry had expanded dramatically and of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954)
The civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent resistance, nonviolent action to bring full Civil and political rights, civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The era has had a lasting impact on Society of the United States, American society – in its tactics, the increased Acceptance, social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of Racism in the United States, racism. Two Supreme Court of the United States, US Supreme Court decisions in particular serve as bookends of the movement: the 1896 ruling of ''Plessy v. Ferguson, Plessy v Ferguson'', which upheld "separate but equal" racial segregation as Constitution of the United States, constitutional doctrine; and 1954's ''Brown v. Board of Education, Brown v Board of Education'', which overturned ''Plessy''. This was an era of new beginnings, in which some movements, such as Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and African ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100)
Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) is an African American youth organization in the United States.Aaron C. DavisBlack youth group demands D.C. mayor recall officers from Baltimore ''Washington Post'' (April 29, 2017). Its activities include community organizing, voter mobilization, and other social justice campaigns focused on black, feminist, and queer issues. The national director is D'Atra "Dee Dee" Jackson. BYP100 was founded in 2013, and was motivated by the response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in his trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin. Founding members include Charlene Carruthers. As of 2019, the group has chapters in Chicago, New York City, the District of Columbia, New Orleans,Danielle Allen & Cathy Cohen,The new civil rights movement doesn't need an MLK ''Washington Post'' (April 10, 2015). Detroit, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Durham, and Jackson. History The group's origins begin with the Black Youth Project, a project set up by black activist and feminist Cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Alliance For Peace
Black Alliance for Peace (also referred to as BAP) is a people(s)-centered human rights project against war, repression, and imperialism. The Open Collective is the fiscal sponsor of the formation. The mission of the organization is "to recapture and redevelop the historic anti-war, anti-imperialist, and pro-peace positions of the radical black movement." History Founded in April 2017 by Ajamu Baraka, the Black Alliance for Peace is part of the renewed effort to organize the anti-war movement based within the Black community in the United States. The organization's founding members agreed to ten points of unity: the right to self defense; self determination; anti-imperialism; working-class foundation; intersectionality; anti-patriarchy; decolonization; prisoner support; black unity; and southern roots. Coordinating Committee The Coordinating Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace currently consists of sixteen representatives of BAP internal structures and member organization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sojourner Truth Organization
Sojourner Truth Organization was a new communist group formed in the winter of 1969, prominent in the Midwest through 1985. Oriented towards organization in the workplace, and named after African American activist Sojourner Truth, the organization distinguished itself from other New Left groups in its critical approach to the role of race in the formation of the American working class. History and ideology Noel Ignatiev, a former leader of the Students for a Democratic Society, became a prominent member of the STO, and expressed the group's sentiment: :''in modern industrial societies, bourgeois rule depends on the development of a variety of "systems" that channel the outbreaks of the exploited class and allow their absorption by capital; that the specifically American framework for this process is the white-skin privilege system — the conferring of a favored status on the white sector of the proletariat; and that the trade unions cannot be understood apart from this fram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Brotherhood Of Workers Of America
The National Brotherhood of Workers of America (NBWA) was the largest body of organised African American workers in the United States of America in 1919. First congress The organisation was formed by T.J. Pree and R.T. Sims. A. Philip Randolph was also on the board.Your History online accessed 17 August 2010 The NBWA held its congress in , from 8–14 September 1919. There were 115 delegates primarily from the South. Three delegates were from the and fifteen from the Society for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detroit Revolutionary Union Movement
The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) was an organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Dodge Main assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan. History Detroit labor activist Martin Glaberman estimated at the time that the Hamtramck plant was 70 per cent black while the union local (UAW Local 3), the plant management and lower supervision, and the Hamtramck city administration was dominated by older Polish-American workers. DRUM sought to organize black workers to obtain concessions not only from the Chrysler management, but also from the United Auto Workers. Walter Reuther and the senior leadership had been early supporters of the American Civil Rights Movement; yet in spite of their growing presence in the auto-industry African-Americans rarely rose to positions of leadership within the union. On July 8, 1968 DRUM led a wildcat strike against conditions in the Hamtramck plant. The strike was observed by some 4,000 workers, laste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left-wing Politics
Left-wing politics describes the range of Ideology#Political%20ideologies, political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in society whom its adherents perceive as disadvantaged relative to others as well as a belief that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished. Left-wing politics are also associated with popular or state control of major political and economic institutions. According to emeritus professor of economics Barry Clark, left-wing supporters "claim that human development flourishes when individuals engage in cooperative, mutually respectful relations that can thrive only when excessive differences in status, power, and wealth are eliminated." Within the left–right political spectrum, ''Left'' and ''right-wing politics, Right'' were coined during the French Revolution, referring to the seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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