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A TikTok video of actor, director, producer and screenwriter William Henry Duke Jr. has surfaced of him discussing the #1 rated best seller Without
Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
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by James Allen, John Lewis and Leon F. Litwack. According to Tuskegee Institute records there were 3,436 African Americans lynched by record between 1882-1950; these murders were seldom reported. When I heard about this book the first thing I did was pick up the phone and Call my local library to check out this book. Unfortunately, there's only two of these books in Broward County and they both were checked out. My next stop was Google. When I saw the pictures of black people, my people that look just like me, my children, my brothers and sister I was in tears. I can’t believe that people could be so Evil. The white people pictured, hung and set these people on fire. They got dressed in their best clothes and gathered around to see. They brought their children to see them die a brutal death. In the pictures you can see the Men, women and children smiling. The one question that came to my mind was why? Why do some white people hate us so much? These heartless, soulless, GODLESS people used these photos as post cards and souvenirs. They sent them to family and friends bragging about what they had
done. This behavior was accepted, police were seen at some of these lynching's and hangings. It’s because of things like these that we celebrate proudly on June 19. We celebrate freedom, freedom for all African American people. We are free from our people being rapped, Lynched, hung, enslaved, and beaten without consequence. Although we have a long way to go. We've come a very long way. In 1909 the NAACP was born and dedicated to helping black people by creating laws that would provide protection and hopefully abolish the atrocities in America. Thank GOD for Gordon Granger
Juneteenth
President Abraham Lincoln freed slaves on 1/1/1863 known as the Emancipation Proclamation. Although we were “free” there were still enslaved African American people in Galveston Texas. On 6/19/1865 Army general Gordon Granger brought the news to the enslaved people there. Today we celebrate Juneteenth which was derived from June 19th as the official independence Day for African American people. The announcement came 2 long years after the emancipation but we're so happy it came. The 19th of June belongs to us!
