US History (forgotten)
US History (forgotten)US History (forgotten)US History (forgotten)US History (forgotten)
US History (forgotten)
By M Susan Broussard
US History (forgotten) is the name shared by this website and my art piece in the photo above.
The inspiration for the painting, US History (forgotten), was to address the gaping holes in basic American history that I had never been taught in school. Standing by itself, my painting could not fill in these holes, so I built this website to accompany it. My goal is to provide content for learning and research. Archival materials (vintage photos, engravings, documents, posters, etc.) serve as evidence of past events. Powerful first person accounts tell unique family stories. The Resources page lists books for adults and for teaching children; as well as organizations, a glossary and quotes. This website will continue to be a work in progress, as I will continually add new content. So keep checking back.
Standing against racism has always been very close to my heart. As a child, I took to heart the biblical plea to love thy neighbor, and our Declaration of Independence's claim that all men are created equal. To this day I grow more and more exasperated with the disparity between these empty words and what I am actually seeing. If a day ever comes when white Americans would not mind being treated like Black or native Americans, that is the day we can give up this fight. Until then, those of us shielded by our white privilege have a responsibility to loudly and clearly speak up.
About the art piece:
US History (forgotten) is a 4x4 foot collage of oil paintings on canvas along with mixed media. (Feathers, leather, jute twine, cotton thread, cotton fabric, rice paper, galvanized wire, cotton bol, sewing pins, safety pins, paperclips, binder clip, paper tag and duct tape. 48 x 48 inches (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Some rudiments of American history never learned in school:
Columbus and Slavery
Founding Fathers and Slavery
Columbus and Slavery
Why does Columbus, the father of extremely violent slave trading in the Americas, who never set foot in North America, have a US national holiday in his honor?
Slave Ships
Founding Fathers and Slavery
Columbus and Slavery
Inhumanity hits rock bottom: Slaveships.
Founding Fathers and Slavery
Founding Fathers and Slavery
Founding Fathers and Slavery
Hundreds of landmark US.buildings, universities and churches were built by the blood, sweat and tears of slaves. Even the White House.
Native Americans
The Underground Railroad
Founding Fathers and Slavery
Where did our indigenous people go? Some history books try to whitewash US history by attributing it to disease. Stunningly hateful and callous words, even by US presidents, document the genocide.
The Civil War
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad
The Civil War was fought over the control of slavery's political system, but not over the moral issue of slavery. Details such as whether or not slave labor would compete with white jobs in the western expansion, were also decided.
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad
America's first untarnished heroes? Truly great and courageous freedom fighters fight for liberty for all.
Reconstruction and Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws targeting Asian Americans
Jim Crow Laws targeting Asian Americans
Emancipation was proclaimed, but freedom was still denied
Jim Crow Laws targeting Asian Americans
Jim Crow Laws targeting Asian Americans
Jim Crow Laws targeting Asian Americans
California created Jim Crow laws to restricted civil liberties and rights of Asian Americans: due process, employment, education, holding office, marriage, voting, owning property, where you could live, segregation, etc.
Forced Native Boarding Schools
Jim Crow Laws targeting Asian Americans
The 1921 Fire Bombing of Black Wall Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma
The US government issued a “compulsory attendance” law that enabled federal officers to forcibly take Native American children from their home and reservation.
The 1921 Fire Bombing of Black Wall Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma
The 1921 Fire Bombing of Black Wall Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma
The 1921 Fire Bombing of Black Wall Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Why was I was never taught about this 35 block massacre and bombing?
Whose 4 faces are on Mt Rushmore?
The 1921 Fire Bombing of Black Wall Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Whose 4 faces are on Mt Rushmore?
After the US breaking treaties and stealing ancestral land, the faces of four white men who supported exterminating Native Americans were carved on the Black Mountains.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
M Susan Broussard, May 30, 2020
We have a responsibility to speak up.
My banner pays honor to:
DREAD SCOTT'S A MAN WAS LYNCHED BY POLICE YESTERDAY FLAG
DREAD SCOTT'S A MAN WAS LYNCHED BY POLICE YESTERDAY FLAG
DREAD SCOTT'S A MAN WAS LYNCHED BY POLICE YESTERDAY FLAG
July, 2016, Artist Dread Scott's flag is an update of the NAACP's flag
NAACP'S A MAN WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY FLAG
DREAD SCOTT'S A MAN WAS LYNCHED BY POLICE YESTERDAY FLAG
DREAD SCOTT'S A MAN WAS LYNCHED BY POLICE YESTERDAY FLAG
Between 1920 and 1938, after a lynching, this flag flew at the office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in NYC until the landlord threatened the office with eviction.
Copyright © 2020 US History (forgotten) - All Rights Reserved.
Powered by GoDaddy Website Builder