This Week In Black History October 23-29, 2024

SCOTTSBORO BOYS OCTOBER 23 1775—The Continental Con­gress approves a resolution barring free Blacks from the army fighting for American independence from England. The resolution came even though many free Blacks were already fighting in the war. The motive behind the resolution came from Southern slave colo­nies which feared that by fight­ing in the war for American in­dependence, Blacks would also demand an end to slavery. 1911—The National Urban League is formed. Next only to the NAACP, it becomes the sec­ond oldest and second largest Black self-help organization in America. It grew out of the spon­taneous 20th-Century Freedom Movement for freedom and op­portunity that came to be called the Black Migrations. Central to the organization’s founding were two remarkable people: Mrs. Ruth Standish Baldwin and Dr. George Edmund Haynes, who would become the Com­mittee’s first executive secre­tary. 1947—The NAACP files an “Appeal To The World” with the newly found United Nations concerning racial injustice in America. For its day, the filing was a bold move on the part of the NAACP and it angered many liberal and conservative Whites. OCTOBER 24 1892—More than 25,000 Black workers are said to have joined a workers strike in New Orleans to protest working con­ditions,...