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"So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."

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"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away."

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all images are a courteousy of Google images

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2017 will be a year “about building black power” for the movement

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This phrase became a rallying cry for Ferguson residents, who took to the streets to protest the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer, Darren Wilson. Witness accounts spread after the shooting that Brown had his hands raised in surrender, mouthing the words “Don’t shoot” as his last words before being shot execution-style.

Grand jury decided not to indict Wilson after finding that witness reports did not match up with evidence

Grand jury could not confirm the “Hands up, don’t shoot” narrative the way it was told after the shooting. By then, however, the phrase had taken on a message of its own.

The phrase took off more than a year ago, becoming a rallying cry for protesters and others trying to draw attention to the death of Brown and other African Americans at the hands of police officers.

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New York

July 17, 2014

Eric Garner, 43, is killed by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo after being put in a chokehold on the side of the road.

A bystander films the footage of the 43-year-old father gasping for air and saying "I can't breathe" before turning limp.

The phrase becomes a key part of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Protests erupt in New York after a grand jury fails to indict officer.

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Patrisse Cullors (left), Alicia Garza (middle), & Opal Tometi (last) 

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Patrisse Cullors (left), Alicia Garza (middle), & Opal Tometi (last) 

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"Black Lives Matter is our call to action. It is a tool to re-imagine a world where black people are free to exist, free to live. It is a tool for our allies to show up differently for us." - Patrisse Cullors

These three women started the famous movement, Black Lives Matter (BLM), after seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was murdered by “White Mexican” George Zimmerman

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*all these quotes are from blacklivesmatter.com*
BLACK FAMILIES

We are committed to making our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We are committed to dismantling the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” that require them to mother in private even as they participate in justice work.

COLLECTIVE VALUE

We are guided by the fact all Black lives, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status or location

DIVERSITY

We are committed to acknowledging, respecting and celebrating difference(s) and commonalities.

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

We are committed to collectively, lovingly and courageously working vigorously for freedom and justice for Black people and, by extension all people. As we forge our path, we intentionally build and nurture a beloved community that is bonded together through a beautiful struggle that is restorative, not depleting.

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The Black Lives Matter campaign was created to raise awareness of the social injustice that the black community faces in America today. “#BlackLivesMatter is working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically and intentionally targeted for demise…the call for Black lives to matter is a rallying cry for ALL Black lives striving for liberation” (blacklivesmatter). BLM wants to free all black lives that are under oppression which includes: transgender, queer, disabled, and blacks in poverty.

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"#BlackLivesMatter was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted for his crime, and dead 17-year old Trayvon was posthumously placed on trial for his own murder"

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The Black Lives Matter campaign was created to raise awareness of the social injustice that the black community faces in America today.

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s i m i l a r i t i e s
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and the Social Reform both want(ed) equality.

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who the equality was directed toward was different. Unlike the BLM campaign (they aim their campaign toward the black community only), the people of the Social Reform aimed their goal to help all races that were oppressed not only the African American community.

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Offered Mexican Americans help with education and books for their kids and helped families buy clothes.

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was started in 1913.

its goal was and still is to defend Jews and others against physical and verbal attacks, false statements, and to create fair treatment and justice between races.

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After the supreme court issued its Plessy v. Ferguson decision, states across the North and South had passed segregation laws. By 1910, segregation was the norm of America.

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Washington believed that African Americans had to achieve economic independence before civil rights; they most prove themselves slowly and take on the discrimination.

"[the Negro must] live peacefully with his white neighbors...the negro [must] deport himself modestly...depending upon the slow but sure influences that proceed from the possessions of property, intelligence, and high character for the full recognition of his political rights."

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Du Bois was a leading civil rights activist.

believed that black Americans had to demand their social and civil rights, in fear of becoming permanent victims of racism.

"The freedman has not yet found in freedom his promise land."

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After the reconstruction of the South in 1896 a law was passed that separated blacks from whites - "separate but equal".

Laws were enacted that stripped colored males of their right to vote.

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De Jure Segregation (Legal Separation of Races)

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De Jure Segregation (Legal Separation of Races)

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The African Americans rights were slipping away in Southern States and people of color were loosing their voting rights.

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Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868

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Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868

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This granted males of color the right to vote.

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Aimed to cut all ties with segregation and racial inequality after the Civil War.