Anti-Racism Update 3.4.26

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AR QUIZ

  • March is Women’s History Month. What woman activist was known for her tireless efforts for suffrage, fighting racism, and in the anti-lynching movement?

ACTION

  • Potluck for CILC. Friday, March 6th at Resident Friend’s House (next to Meetinghouse). Scott Stoner & Ellen Ferwerda have announced the next potluck & folk-singing Friday, March 6 at Ellen’s house (Resident Friend’s house next to the Meetinghouse). Potluck at 6pm, Signing at 7pm. Donations will go towards Community Immigration Law Center. More info here: https://madisonfriends.org/poluck-folk-singing/
  • Voces de la Frontera and partners are calling on allies and community members to help build up legal funds. To meet this need, you can direct money to this legal aid fund. Meeting recently approved a contribution to Voces at Meeting for Business. More is still needed and your contributions make a difference!
  • Attend a Know Your Rights Training. Lake Edge Lutheran Church on Monday, March 9th at 6 pm or Wednesday, March 11th 6pm at Madison Labor Temple. General information about Know Your Rights is also available on the Voces de la Frontera website in Spanish and English. The Centro website also has videos and resources available.
  • February was Black History Month. It’s always a good time to learn! Celebrate Black History in Wisconsin with the Wisconsin State Historical Society. From online learning to special exhibits to future walking tours, there is much to learn and continue learning here.

EDUCATION

  • The SoulFolk Collective: Black Study as Freedom Practice. March 25th; 11:30am – 1pm; Union South, Varsity Hall: In this round-table talk, members of The SoulFolk Collective will share key findings from their community-based oral history project about the spaces that Black Madison residents reported as Black-affirming. They will explore how a Black geographies theoretical framework allows them to see how Black folks have co-constructed space to have meaning and a sense of belonging in Madison, revealing the freedom practices and spatial knowledge that challenge dominant narratives of exclusion and erasure. They will end with a look forward to their work on designing the SoulFolk Saturday school, a program for high school students in the spirit of the Freedom School movement. Deadline to register is March 10th.
  • Check out this Mutual Aid Book List from Madison Librarians. After Martin Luther King Jr. Day Families for Justice shared this mutual aid book list from Madison librarians. Explore Civil Rights history for you, children and youth. Our local libraries have much to offer for ongoing education at home. To get started, here is a Mutual Aid/Community Care and Collaboration Book List from your Madison Librarians.
  • We Belong to Each Other Now: Lessons from Minneapolis. Read lessons learned from Minneapolis and how people are showing up for each other. “May [organizer] noted that the right’s inability to understand “why an old auntie would be walking around Alex Pretti’s memorial pouring coffee for strangers in subzero temperatures” is one of the movement’s strengths. “They’ll infiltrate the Signal groups or whatever, but what they cannot actually understand is how people are relating to each other. This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you’ll understand that.” https://organizingmythoughts.org/we-belong-to-each-other-now-lessons-from-minneapolis/ 

AR QUIZ ANSWER

  • Ida B. Wells. She fought tirelessly for the right of all women to vote, despite facing racism within the suffrage movement. Her activism began in 1884, when she refused to give up her train car seat, leading to a successful lawsuit against the train company. She took part in the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C., in 1913, which was organized by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, as the sole Black woman in the Illinois delegation. Wells marched with this group despite being asked at the last moment to move to the back of the procession with the segregated contingent. Motivated in part by racism within the women’s suffrage movement, she went on to found and co-found a variety of civil rights organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Association of Colored Women and the Alpha Suffrage Club. Read more about Ms. Wells, here, here, and watch a one-minute video. 


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