How Black Unity Changed The Course Of One Family's Fate
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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It didn’t matter that they were defending themselves from an angry, armed white neighbor. But there was one thing that DID matter. It ended up saving this Black family from certain death – and we need more of it today.
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| 0:00.0 | It didn't matter that they were defending themselves from an angry armed white neighbor, |
| 0:05.3 | but there was one thing that did matter. It ended up saving this black family from certain |
| 0:11.3 | death and we need more of it today. This is Two Minute Black History, what you didn't learn in school. |
| 0:18.8 | As a widow and sharecropper, Rosa Ingram worked hard to provide for her 12 children, |
| 0:31.4 | but when livestock ventured onto their white neighbor's plot, something happened that would |
| 0:36.5 | make their lives a living hell. The neighbor stormed to Ingram's house, red face and spitting, |
| 0:43.6 | he confronted her. She reminded him that the land and the livestock belonged to the land owner, |
| 0:50.0 | not him, so he attacked her, hitting her with his gun. Her sons came to their mother's aid, |
| 0:57.2 | beating the man off of her. But in 1947, self-defense was not a privilege black people could |
| 1:05.0 | easily exercise. The man later died. Without counsel or a fair trial, Ingram and her sons |
| 1:21.5 | were sentenced to death by an all-white jury. But all was not lost, our community immediately |
| 1:30.2 | took action. The NAACP paid for their defense lawyer and started a national campaign to free Ingram |
| 1:38.7 | and her sons, but efforts didn't stop there. They raised money to get the family a home away |
| 1:45.1 | from sharecropping altogether. The organizations never stopped working. Eventually Ingram and her sons |
| 1:52.8 | were freed in 1959. Their case showed that justice, which is so often lost to our people, |
| 2:01.9 | is possible, especially when we work together to challenge the system. |
| 2:08.5 | In order to move towards the future, you've got to look to the past. This has been Two Minute Black |
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| 2:22.5 | and join us in amplifying stories we all deserve to know. |
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