This article covers books, a play, and archives focused on how African Americans searched for relatives and other information after slavery. It includes resources of interest for genealogists and family historians:
https://informationwanted.org/
ETA: This reminded me of A Dream Delivered: The Lost Letters of Hawkins Wilson:
So the white supremacist put in charge of the Pentagon fired a Black general?
Well, I, for one, did nazi that coming!
Even before watching, I think I can answer that:
Many White people are afraid of being negatively treated the way Non-White people have been since this country was first stolen from its’ Native residents.
Truly bigoted White people are afraid of being the recipients of vengeance/comeuppance for the hundreds of years millions of POC have suffered under the entrenched system of white supremacy that they have facilitated and embodied.
For real, even though that’s never been on the civil rights agenda for most Black, Native, Latinx, AAPI, etc Americans… But they (white bigots) can’t imagine anyone wanting to live in a world without supremacy… all they can imagine is a world of hierarchies, and if that’s how “reality” is, well, they better be on top then…
Once again, like Kimberly Jones said in her righteous 2020 rant, during the height of the George Floyd protests; They are lucky we only want equity and equality, not vengeance.
Sadly, a lot of Non-White assholes also cannot seem to imagine it; they just want to displace the overprivileged het-norm White males from the very top of the heap, so that they can take their place.
Something something, leopards and faces…
OMG, Bill…
From…
[ETA] Okay… the whole section on the founding of NOI is batshit insane… Who was Wallace Fard Mohammad… well, no one actually fucking knows… 
“…I don’t believe in… ever watching BET again.”
HEARD!
*lolz
Yeah… I did some research on the NOI after I read the autobiography of Malcolm X for the first time in my senior year of high school.
What I learned was enough to convince me that I never wanted to be a member.
I thought this Black History Month post might be of interest. I’m active with Farm Aid and thrilled to see they’re still a place for lefty country folk who support the resistance.
The post itself is worth a look but it also includes a reading list, which highlighted an excellent book for those who like fiddles and banjos but not the mainstream country music industry and the associated political inclinations:
Welp…
