The Coalition of Concerned Freedmen Issues Four Calls-to-Action in Open Letter to College Presidents Demanding Lineage-Based Affirmative Action for Descendants of U.S. Slaves/Free Negroes

Pamela Denise Long 7/28/2310:58 AM

🚨📰 NEWS RELEASE: The Coalition of Concerned Freedmen Issues Four Calls-to-Action in Open Letter to College Presidents Demanding Lineage-Based Affirmative Action for Descendants of U.S. Slaves/Free Negroes

Pamela Denise Long, National Coordinator for The Coalition of Concerned Freedmen stated, "Historians largely frame 1960's Affirmative Action as a response to Negroes' sustained resistance to the unconstitutional Jim Crow era that began after the sabotage of Reconstruction (via the Compromise of 1877) and lasted through May 17, 1954, when the Supreme Court of the United States finally overturned the 1896 Plessy v Ferguson SCOTUS opinion that sunk the nation into 'separate but equal' racial segregation between White Americans and America's newly freed people."

Until now, resisters have successfully turned 14A & affirmative action into history-blind weapons against U.S. Freedmen."...

This SCOTUS decision brings the U.S. and its institutions closer to the...[read more here]

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