Enslavement

Jim Crow

Civil rights

Black power

Those are the chapters most people can name

But some of the most important black history isn't what we know

It's what's been erased There was one such moment so unmistakably black,

its truth has been pushed out of textbooks. But if we recover it, we could possibly learn a powerful

method to fight racism and win.

You're listening to Push Black's Two-Minute Black History, what you didn't learn in school.

Enslavement was over.

While black people were legally free,

whites pushed back against many of the policies put into place.

The Freedmen's Bureau was dismantled.

Black codes were in place.

And of course, white terrorists hid under the hoods of the newly created KKK.

White Southerners refused to enact reforms that allowed formerly

enslaved people to get health care, education, and voting rights. White

Northerners refused to grant black workers union membership and ignored their

needs. But there was another movement in play, Black Collective Power.

In 1867, black voters were the majority in every single southern state.

And over 600 local leadership positions were filled by our people,

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