Celebrate People's History!. Группа авторов
history which led to the formation of the first Black republic in 1804.
ARTWORK: AARON RENIER
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
“Education makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
ARTWORK: JOHN JENNINGS
Sequoyah and the Cherokee Writing System
In 1821 Sequoyah completed the development of a Cherokee writing system. Each character represents a syllable, instead of one sound as when one writes English, so it’s called a syllabary. There are eighty-five characters in the writing system and these were cast into metal for printing. A Cherokee dictionary was produced in the mid-1970s, one hundred and fifty years after the first editors and printers of the Cherokee Phoenix came to New Echota to print the first Native American newspaper. Some say Sequoyah was illiterate, but how can you be illiterate if you’re the person who developed your own system of writing? Some say the writing system, or portions of it, may have existed even before Sequoyah.
ARTWORK: SPEAKEASY PRESS (DESIGN: FRANK BRANNON; ILLUSTRATION: LUZENE HILL; TRANSLATION: LAURA PINNIX)
Elisée Reclus (1830-1905)
Elisée Reclus, influential French geologist and anarchist, proposed that humanity take full responsibility as the conscience of the Earth.
“Wild nature is so beautiful! Is it then necessary that man, in his seizure of it, has to proceed systematically to exploit each newly conquered domain and to mark his ownership with vulgar constructions and property boundaries as straight as a die?” —L’Homme et la Nature,1865
ARTWORK: SHAUN SLIFER
The Underground Railroad
“Yes I was a slave and I’ll say this to the whole world: slavery was the worst curse ever visited on the people of the United States.”—John Rudd
ARTWORK: SAM KERSON
The Little Shell Band of Chippewa Indians
“We are a scattered tribe. We weren’t claimed by the whites. We weren’t claimed by the full bloods. They used to call us persons with no souls. Now at least we have an identity.”
ARTWORK: LARRY CYR
Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Action
On June 3, 1863, Harriet Tubman led union troops in a guerrilla action at Combahee River, South Carolina, leading over seven hundred and fifty slaves to freedom. It was the first and only military action to be conceived and led by a woman in US history.
ARTWORK: DARRELL GANE-MCCALLA
Little Bighorn
On June 25, 1876, General George Custer and a heavily armed cavalry regiment attacked a camp of Lakota, Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians on the banks of the Little Bighorn River in what is now Montana. Custer’s regiment was part of the forces clearing the region of indigenous peoples so white settlers could mine gold in the Black Hills. That day Custer met a crushing defeat at the hands of the assembled tribes, under the leadership of Crazy Horse and Gall. Custer and his men were entirely wiped out in one of the greatest victories for Indian peoples during the last five hundred years of genocide in the Americas.
ARTWORK: ROGER PEET
El Hijo Del Ahuizote
El Hijo del Ahuizote fue un perodico revolucionario que luchó contra la dictadura de Porfirio Diaz en Mexico. La publicación combinó el pensamiento anarquista de Ricardo Flores Magón y su hermano Enrique, con la grafica popular de protesta de Jose Guadalupe Posada para desatar una larga guerra contra el autoritarismo, que despues de que el peridico se ve reprimido y cerrado definitivamente se expresa en otras publicaciones que juntas irían a ayudar a pavimentar el camino hacia la Revolucion Mexicana en 1910.
“Que a sangre y fuego caiga, lo que a sangre y fuego se mantiene.”—Ricardo Flores Magón
El Hijo del Ahuizote was a revolutionary newspaper that fought against Porfirio Diaz’s dictatorship in Mexico. The paper combined the anarchist ideas of Ricardo Flores Magón and his brother Enrique, with Jose Guadalupe Posada’s graphics, to unleash a war against authoritarianism. Founded in 1885, it was shut down and censored multiple times. Even after the paper fell victim to repression, Magón and Posada were involved in other publications that expressed the same unrest and helped pave the road towards the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
“That which is maintained with blood and fire through blood and fire shall fall.”—Ricardo Flores Magón
ARTWORK: SANTIAGO ARMENGOD
May Day
May Day is International Workers’ Day, a time of celebration and opposition throughout the world, except in the United States where it began. May Day commemorates the May 1, 1886 nationwide protest for the eight-hour day and the following “Haymarket Affair,” a pivotal event in the history of workers’ and anarchist movements in which four labor organizers were hanged by the State in Chicago. May Day is also the ancient celebration of Spring and rebirth—the traditional time for planting new seeds in old ground.
ARTWORK: ERIC DROOKER
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