Posts Tagged as ‘reconstruction’

b-day: New York gives African Americans the right to vote 140 years ago today

Ratified by New York: March 30, 1870
Added to the Constitution: Feb 3, 1870
The 15th Amendment was apart of the Reconstruction Amendments, and it gave African-Americans the right to vote throughout the country, by banning voter discrimination based on “race, color or previous condition of servitude.”

Did you know? After the amendment was ratified, several black legislators, [...]

March 30, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: African American, b-days, b-listed, breakthrough, Civil Rights, Constitution, reconstruction, Rights, Slavery, The 15th Amendment, Vote | No Comments »

b-activists: DJ Spooky’s rebirth of a nation at MOMA in NYC

photo courtesy of moma.org

Nearly one hundred years after film The Birth of a Nation, performance artist and musician Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, has “remixed” the film, using dj techniques that criticize and expose the racism and violence of that historical period - the Civil War, the Reconstruction period, and [...]

June 15, 2009 by akshay | Tags: b-activists, dj spooky, film, performance art, Racism, rebirth of a nation, reconstruction, remix | No Comments »

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