Anthony
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Anthony
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💙 Dad to two great kids and married to the awesome @sarahhaan.bsky.social 💙 Charlottesville rocks 💙 Embrace kindness 💙¡Siempre pa’ adelante!
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👏🏻👏🏻 thank you for the education!
February 1, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Learn about Reconstruction. You can’t understand the U.S. without knowing the truth about Reconstruction.

Sources on the CMUC:

www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bl...

www.lva.virginia.gov/collections/...

www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropo...
February 1, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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Finally, the story of the CMUC is also a sobering reminder of the destructive force & resilience of white supremacy, which overcame the organization’s democracy work.
February 1, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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Because Black women always are.
February 1, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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The CMUC shows that Black people were co-creators of their own citizenship & freedom - refusing to wait for the official word before acting as citizens. And despite the fact that it was men who voted, I have no doubt that Black women were involved in the planning and preparation for CMUC activities.
February 1, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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Still, CMUC stands as a testament to Black political organizing, and to the vision of Black people to see freedom even before freedom was won. Their efforts confirm that preparation for power is a critical organizing strategy.
February 1, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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Litigation and activism to protect Black voting in the state continues.
February 1, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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11. This is the constitution that facilitated Virginia’s readmission to the Union, in an act passed by Congress and signed by President Grant in 1870. The terms of the Virginia Readmission Act were recently (2 wks ago) the basis of a suit challenging the state’s felony disenfranchisement law.
February 1, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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It would take Brown v. Board of Ed. & the Civil Rights Movement to re-plant the seeds of democracy in that state. In 1990 Virginia elected the first Black Governor in the country, Douglas Wilder.
Photos: teen civil rights activist Barbara Johns, civil rights atty Oliver Hill, & Governor Wilder.
February 1, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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With the destruction of Reconstruction in full swing in the 1880s, the state passed a series of laws limiting voting, and a new state constitution in 1902, which ultimately disenfranchised 90% of the state’s Black voters & plunged the state into white supremacist rule for decades.
February 1, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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10. Of the 104 delegates elected to the state constitutional convention, 24 were Black (depicted in the engraving below).Together these delegates were the framers of Virginia’s new constitution,which guaranteed voting rights, elected govt throughout the state, & a public school system for the state.
February 1, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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The world we live in of fast fashion, just-in-time manufacturing, big pharma, GMO crops, Tech Billionaires and endless franchise slop is all a result of the world IP built, and I prove it through close readings of about 25 different Disney movies. Yes, really!
The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World
How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World
bookshop.org
February 1, 2026 at 3:13 PM