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Discover the often overlooked history of July 4th for Black Americans and its ongoing relevance in the fight for social justice. For Black people, July 4 holds a complicated and largely untold place in American history. We often hear about the moments in which colonists took steps toward independence. For example, in The Fourth of July—also known as Independence Day or July 4th—has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1941, but the tradition of Independence Day celebrations goes back to the In the aftermath of the Civil War, Fourth of July celebrations took on deep new meanings. While Confederate sympathizers hid away in bitterness, African Americans a What is Independence Day for African-Americans? Many Black Americans can not seem to forget this historical trauma of slavery, which has somehow shaped how they perceive and experience the 4th of July, even decades after emancipation. The political climate changed in the 1870s as the federal government abandoned Reconstruction and local Memphis elites led a successful movement to dissolve the city charter, reducing the power of Black voters. By the 1890s, white southerners were again embracing the Fourth of July. Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States which commemorates the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America. The Founding Father delegates of the Second Continental Congress declared that the Thirteen Colonies were no longer subject (and On July 4, 1876, (in the midst of a heated Reconstruction era local election season) a Black militia was engaged in military exercises when two white farmers attempted to drive through. Analysis Why the 4th of July Matters In every generation, the Declaration of Independence has stood for a more expansive promise of freedom and equality. The tradition of enslaved people striking for freedom on the Fourth of July led some of slavery’s defenders to try making the holiday a White-only event. This is a list of protests and unrest in the United States between 2020 and 2023 against systemic racism towards black people in the United States, such as in the form of police violence. [1][2][3] Following the murder of George Floyd, unrest broke out in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area on May 26, 2020, and quickly spread across the country and the world. Further unrest quickly spread According to The Atlantic, the 4th of July "became an almost exclusively African American holiday in the states of the former Confederacy - until white Southerners, after violently reasserting their dominance of the region, snuffed these Black commemorations out." Blackfacts.com is the oldest and longest-running data-driven online Black History resource, which has served millions and millions of Black Facts to users across the globe over its unbroken 28-year history. The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. The Civil July 4th celebrations remind some Black Americans of America's sordid racial past. The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, [1][2][a] were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between the demonstrators and the Chinese government to find a peaceful resolution, the Chinese government deployed troops to occupy the square on the night Gun violence is down across America this year but it peaks every summer and Chicago’s Fourth of July weekend bore the data out, with 109 people shot, including 19 fatally, police said in a Throughout the 1800s, Black Americans used the July Fourth to argue for emancipation and full citizenship, making the case that Black citizens – free and enslaved – had as much right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as white people. The Story of the Fourth of July The Declaration of Independence We celebrate American Independence Day on the Fourth of July every year. We think of July 4, 1776, as a day that represents the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation. But July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did The Ocoee massacre was an act of mass racial violence in November 1920 that saw a white mob attack African-American residents in the northern parts of Ocoee, Florida, a town located in Orange County near Orlando. Ocoee was the home to 255 African-Americans and 560 white residents according to the 1920 Census. [3] The massacre took place on November 2, the day of the U.S. presidential election
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