400 Years of
African-American History
Commission Act
This bill establishes the 400 Years of African-American History Commission to develop and carry out activities throughout the United States to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Africans in the English colonies at Point Comfort, Virginia, in 1619.
The commission must:
The commission must prepare a strategic plan and submit a final report to Congress that contains a summary of its activities, an accounting of its received and expended funds, and its recommendations. The commission shall terminate on July 1, 2020.
Click on this link to visit H.R. 1242 website
Introduced in House 2/28/2017
African-American History
Commission Act
This bill establishes the 400 Years of African-American History Commission to develop and carry out activities throughout the United States to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Africans in the English colonies at Point Comfort, Virginia, in 1619.
The commission must:
- plan programs to acknowledge the impact that slavery and laws that enforced racial discrimination had on the United States;
- encourage civic, patriotic, historical, educational, artistic, religious, and economic organizations to organize and participate in anniversary activities;
- assist states, localities, and nonprofit organizations to further the commemoration; and
- coordinate for the public scholarly research on the arrival of Africans in the United States and their contributions to this country.
The commission must prepare a strategic plan and submit a final report to Congress that contains a summary of its activities, an accounting of its received and expended funds, and its recommendations. The commission shall terminate on July 1, 2020.
Click on this link to visit H.R. 1242 website
Introduced in House 2/28/2017
Just a few months before the Butler auction, the now infamous slave ship the Wanderer had landed at Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia with more than 400 illegal slaves brought directly from the Congo. This was one of the last documented slave ships to arrive in North American and it created a roiling controversy. The transport of slaves from Africa had long been outlawed, but owners of the Wanderer, with the help of the pro-slavery “fire-eater” Charles Lamar, disguised their ship as a luxury cruise liner and brought back a hull-full of “human chattel,” thumbing his nose at federal law. Records indicate that nearly 80 slaves perished on the voyage. Read the rest of this article here.
The results of Colonialism compounded by the trans Atlantic slave trade and other actions that have occurred over the past 400 plus years has been brutal and devastating.
We pose a few of the numerous questions that need to be considered such as Who are we? Where is home? Where is our country? What is our language? What are the logical solution(s) to the many problems the we face today?
To answer the first question is simple. We are the survivors of the worst atrocities ever inflicted against an people in history.
We pose a few of the numerous questions that need to be considered such as Who are we? Where is home? Where is our country? What is our language? What are the logical solution(s) to the many problems the we face today?
To answer the first question is simple. We are the survivors of the worst atrocities ever inflicted against an people in history.
