Wesley Hogan

@wesleyhogan

Historian of freedom movements. Let's get free. snccdigital.org/ and sites.duke.edu/ncpostdobbs/

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Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· 28d

We are better than this. We are the majority. We shall overcome. Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Rest in Power. photo: Robert F. Bukaty/AP

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Apr 11

John Roberts, working to kill the VRA since he was a 28 year old Reagan appointee. (Poster: Amos Paul Kennedy). Receipts available at National Archives:, Record Group 60, Department of Justice, Accession #60-89-372, Box 30, Folder “John G. Roberts, Jr. Misc”

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Jul 21

To download the app that shows the neighborhood memorial cited at top, go to apps.apple.com/us/app/place... (Apple) and play.google.com/store/apps/d... (Google Play)

Sign that the British forces erected at the entrance to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany, 29 May 1945. It reads: This is the site of the infamous Belsen concentration camp liberated by the british on 15 April 1945. 10,000 unburied dead were found here. Another 13,000 have since died. All of them victims of the German new order in Europe. And an example of Nazi Kultur.

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Jul 21

Did those who signed HR 1, just take one such step? Not hard to imagine there being a sign outside the former Congress building in 2075: (16/21)

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Jul 21

In Jackson, MS, as pedestrians pass site of a former poultry plant in 2075: "March 2025 'He didn’t come home. I thought he died.' —9-year-old after ICE raid near Laurel, MS. ICE tore families apart in the middle of workdays, leaving schools and churches scrambling to care for children." (15/21)

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Jul 21

In Miami, FL next to the former Krome facility (now a museum) in 2075: JULY 21, 2025, “'They made us kneel. The food was thrown at us.'— Migrant held at Krome ICE facility, HRW report. Detainees were shackled, denied heat and medical care, and subjected to degrading treatment in Florida." (14/21)

A street sign in Miami, FL in 2075, In Miami, FL next to the former Krome facility (now a museum) in 2075: JULY 21, 2025, “'They made us kneel. The food was thrown at us.'— Migrant held at Krome ICE facility, HRW report. Detainees were shackled, denied heat and medical care, and subjected to degrading treatment in Florida."

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Jul 21

In Koreatown, next to an elementary school in 2075: "THE GOVERNMENT TOOK CHILDREN. 2,800 KIDS WERE NEVER PROPERLY TRACKED." It's back side: “'What did 'zero tolerance' mean to a 4-year-old?' —Testimony, former Border Agent, 2039. Recordkeeping failed. Many children were lost in the system." (13/21)

Black and white sign on a street, showing a silhouette of a big ICE hand pulling a mother away from a child, and text reading: "JUNE 20, 2018
THE GOVERNMENT TOOK CHILDREN.
2,800 KIDS WERE NEVER PROPERLY TRACKED.
Back of Sign:
“We were told it was ‘zero tolerance.’ But what did that mean to a 4-year-old?” — Testimony, former Border Agent, 2039
Under Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” policy, children were separated from their parents at the border. Recordkeeping failed. Many were lost in the system."

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Jul 21

For instance, in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights, perhaps its residents will walk through and pass this daily in 2075: (12/21)

Black and white street sign reading, "October 6, 2017. DACA was ended. 800,000 young people were told: You do not belong." A red circle with a line through it encircles a soccer ball, a backpack, a school desk, a computer.

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Jul 21

-- but instead complained to the Nazis that the dogs and cats belonging to their kidnapped Jewish neighbors were barking + meowing -- disturbing their "peace." The Nazis responded by forbidding Jews from keeping their pets after Feb. 15, 1942. (5/21)

A blue sign wtih a caliico housecat on it. Underneath the image is text from the sign, "Jews are no longer allowed to have household pets. February 15, 2942"

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Jul 21

Or when you walk by the local elementary school, you see this sign: "Jewish children are prohibited from public school" as of Nov. 15, 1938. And after June 20, 1942, "Jewish children can no longer attend any school," private or public: (3/21)

The image is of a small chalkboard, with a string and chalk attached. The text reads in German, "Jewish children are expelled from public school, November 15, 1938." And that after June 20, 1942, Jewish children cannot attend any school, private or public."

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Jul 21

So today, when you walk by a neighborhood supermarket, you see this sign, showing that from July 4, 1940 on, Jews were forbidden from buying groceries except between 4-5 pm ( 2/21)

A blue background with a loaf of bread on the front. The sign underneath the image reads, "Jews in Berlin are only allowed to buy food between four and five o'clock in the afternoon," as of July 4, 1940.

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Apr 6

SNCC vet Judy Richardson, 81, last week answered a student who asked how Freedom Movement people found the courage to resist armed racists in the South. "Bullies," she looked the young man straight in the eye. "Their oxygen is our fear. Cut off the source." sncclegacyproject.org/sncc-grassro...

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Mar 20

So many reminders along the way this week of the vital necessity of this quote from Edward Abbey, *A Voice Crying in the Wilderness* 1989

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Mar 18

Yesterday in TX Ken Paxton arrested a reproductive care worker. He claimed she provided 'illegal abortions.' No other details. We do know: Community health care workers have been relied on as trusted supports to accompany people through pregnancy, birth, miscarriage, + abortion for 20,000 yrs here

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Mar 10

There might be some researchers, doctors, university leaders + faculty who feel inspired by this Rosa Parks quote today, print by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.

Rosa Parks' quote: "You Must Never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right" black caps text on a red/pink/gray background.

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Mar 5

Then he reminded us we have to fight, together!

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Mar 5

"At what point are you going to stand up for what's right, and not bow down to what's wrong? "

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Mar 5

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Feb 26

Listening to Robert Cray's "This Man". Song of the moment as my train moves through DC. open.spotify.com/track/06s7QR...

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Feb 25

Mari Tepper, presenté

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Feb 22

Please share this information with people in your life who are capable of pregnancy. We're in that new world, and not enough of us know how to protect ourselves. For more info on keeping reproductive life private, see this excellent guide digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/a...

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Feb 22

The Courage To Be protects us

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Feb 22

The powerful details include

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Jan 24

Malu Brooks💥 from @dreamdefenders.bsky.social, bringing this fire reminder for the role of activist archivists during "shock and awe"--"We no longer armchair revolutionaries...we're using academia for our people"

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Dec 15

People who love and support K12 teachers-elementary, social studies- please consider spending a few dollars this season to support @zinnedproject.bsky.social .They provide so many lessons, documents, ideas + networks to support those who teach essential civics to all our children. Thank you ZEP!

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Dec 14

@greensboro-nc.bsky.social come out and freedom teach with us at 2pm today!

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Dec 3

SNCC Veterans sharing how they think about political education, then and especially now. Join us online, Dec. 9 duke.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Wesley Hogan@wesleyhogan· Nov 16

As people come together asking "what now," I'm inspired by how Black Mississippians got to work after being defeated in Atlantic City in 1964. "We had no idea what a hit this idea would be across the South" ... snccdigital.org/our-voices/l...