MikeDunnAuthor2d ago

Today in Labor History March 20, 2000: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, was arrested for murdering a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. Al-Amin had been a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panthers. He once said that “violence is as American as cherry pie.” Al-Amin denied shooting the deputy. His fingerprints were not found on the murder weapon. He had no gunshot wounds, though officers who were present at the shootout claimed that the suspect had been hit and wounded. Another man, Otis Jackson, later confessed to being the shooter, but the authorities have repeatedly denied Al-Amin’s requests for a retrial. He is now serving a life sentence. He had been at Florence supermax, under a gag order preventing interviews with journalists. In 2014, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. He is now at the U.S. Penitentiary, Tucson. In April 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal from al-Amin. He died on November 25, 2025.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #blackpanthers #sncc #HRapBrown #prison #cancer #journalism #incarceration #SuperMax #wrongfulconviction #racism #BlackMastodon

John RefiorMar 6

"The many dangers LaFayette faced included an assassination attempt on the same night Medgar Evers was murdered in Mississippi, in what the FBI said was a conspiracy to kill civil rights workers. LaFayette was beaten outside his home before his assailant pointed a gun at him..."

"LaFayette grew up in Tampa, Florida, where he recalled trying to board a trolley with his grandmother when he was 7 years old. Black passengers had to pay at the front, then walk to the back to climb on. But the conductor began to pull away before they could board, and his grandmother fell. He was too little to help.

"He was beaten in Montgomery, Alabama, and arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, becoming one of more than 300 Freedom Riders sent to Parchman Prison...

"Several of King’s marches were attacked by white mobs..."
https://apnews.com/article/bernard-lafayette-voting-rights-organizer-dies-f2f526a1a0b911edb9ef3c219cee77e8
#sncc #BernardLaFayette #selma #ushistory #obit

Selma voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette dies at 85, son says

Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85. LaFayette laid the foundations of the Selma, Alabama, campaign that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. He helped lead the fight to integrate Nashville, Tennessee, as a student. He was a Freedom Rider and helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. LaFayette was an organizer with the Chicago Freedom Movement and national coordinator of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhDFeb 10
The #CivilRights #SitIns that began in #Greensboro spread throughout the year. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1960 they reached #Raleigh. About 150 Black youth, trained in #NonViolent tactics (later creating #SNCC) occupied lunch counters at #Walgreens, #Woolworths, and other locations.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESFeb 7

"In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience"

- #StokelyCarmichael aka #KwameTure

https://snccdigital.org/people/stokely-carmichael/

#BlackHistoryMonth #SNCC #StudentNonviolentCoordinatingCommittee

Liam O'Mara IV, PhDFeb 1
The #GreensboroFour staged the first of the #GreensboroSitIns on #ThisDayInHistory in 1960. First target was the "Whites Only" lunch counter in a #Woolworths department store. Sit-ins lasted until 25 July, forced #desegregation at the store chain, & catalyzed formation of #SNCC.
BigTealNov 26

On November 23rd 2025 Jamil Al-Amin made his transition. Giving the ultimate sacrifice to liberate black/African people within the domestic colonis of the #USA A reminder that Western imperialism is the biggest enemy of the people and the planet and must be overthrown and uprooted.

Rest in Power: Jamil Al-Amin (formerly known as Rap H. Brown) #RIP #Revolutionary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_cQABDzLGY

#JamilAlAmin #HRapBrown #SNCC #BlackPantherParty

Rest in Power: Jamil Al-Amin (formerly known as Rap H. Brown) #RIP #Revolutionary

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NonilexNov 24

#GiftArticle

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, #BlackPower Activist Known as #HRapBrown, Dies at 82

A charismatic orator in the 1960s & Civil Rights movement leader, he called for an armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of a murder in 2000 which he denied committing & died in detention on 23 November 2025.

#SNCC #FBI #CivilRights #VotingRights #AntiRiotAct #KernerReport #law #COINTELPRO
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/h-rap-brown-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82

A charismatic orator in the 1960s, he called for armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of murder in 2000 and died in detention.

The New York Times
kat donegan 🇵🇸✊Sep 10, 2025
10 september, 1962: fannie lou hamer survives an assassination attempt by shite supremacists. you can't kill a legend like fannie lou, dumbfucks.
#fannieLouHamer #SNCC #civilRights #mississippi #womensRights #blackVoices #racism #feminism #art #illustration
John AutryAug 29, 2025
August 29, 1961 - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was pursuing its voter registration drive in Amite County, Mississippi. Of 5000 eligible Negro voters in the county, just one was registered to vote. SNCC leader Robert Moses was attacked and beaten this day outside the registrar’s office while trying to sign up two voters. Nine stitches were required but the three white assailants were acquitted.
#RobertMoses #SNCC
MikeDunnAuthorAug 24, 2025

Today in Labor History August 24, 1922: Howard Zinn, American historian, author, teacher and activist was born on this day. Zinn has written over 20 books, including his most well-known book, “A People's History of the United States” (1980). He has described himself as an anarchist and as a democratic socialist. He was initially opposed to U.S. involvement in WWII, but later enlisted to help fight fascism. However, after napalm-bombing a town in France, he later learned that over 1,000 civilians had been killed. This experience reinforced the anti-war stance he would maintain for the rest of his life. In the 1960s, he was heavily involved in the SNCC and Freedom Summer. Zinn has mentored many famous activists and writers, including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. In 2008, the Zinn Education Project launched to support teachers using “A People’s History” in their curriculum. He died in 2010 from an apparent heart attack.

Be sure to come to the annual Howard Zinn Book fair this December 7, 2025, (10am-6pm) at San Francisco City College, Mission Campus. There will be lots of great writers and workshops. This year’s theme is “Fight Supremacy: Actions Against Authoritarianism.” I will be hosting a working-class writers panel with San Francisco Poet Laureate and activist Tongo Eisen-Martin, poet Daphne Gottlieb, educator and author Jenny Worley, and possibly more tbd.

https://www.zinnbookfair.org/2025

#workingclass #LaborHistory #howardzinn #peopleshistory #anarchism #socialism #sncc #historian #civilrights #antiwar #author #writer #books #poet @bookstadon