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Black History Year

3 Times Black Resistance Crushed White Terror

Black History Year

PushBlack

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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When flag-waving white terrorists showed up to a historically Black community, shouting the n-word, and claiming territory for white men, residents reacted quickly. And while the cowards ran away in a U-Haul and called the police, something else happened...


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When flag-waving white terrorists showed up to a historically black community shouting the N-word and cleaning territory for white men, residents reacted quickly.

0:13.0

And while the cowards ran away in a U-Haul and called the police, something else happened.

0:19.0

I'm Len, and this is two-minute black history.

0:21.6

What You Didn't Learn in school.

0:28.6

White nationalism has always found a way to invade our spaces.

0:35.6

From the Ku Klutz Klan forming after reconstruction to

0:40.5

white vigilantes shooting us in public spaces, groups and individuals spewing hatred aren't new

0:46.4

to the landscape, but neither is our resistance. Here are three examples of what we mean.

0:52.9

One, when the Ku Klux Klan attacked peaceful civil rights protesters in Bogalusa, Louisiana in 1965,

1:02.4

the community was infuriated.

1:04.6

A group of men formed the Deacons for Defense and Justice.

1:09.5

The next time a terrorist fired at protesters, the Deacons

1:12.9

fired back. It was the same for those of North too. Number two, during the red summer of

1:19.7

1919, black troops returned from World War I, ready to fight for our rights. When white citizens retaliated with unprecedented violence,

1:30.3

these same veterans protected our communities and each other.

1:35.3

Some of our resistance even changed how the nation views guilt.

1:40.3

Number three, when black farmers in Elaine, Arkansas met at their church, white terrorists

1:47.6

lost their minds.

1:49.7

Terrified that black people were planning something.

1:53.2

A small mob shot into the church.

1:56.5

When the farmers fired back, one of the terrorists was killed.

2:04.2

After many long, tedious court battles,

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