POC Solidarity

·  1700 – Black Seminoles, also called Seminole Maroons or Seminole Freedmen, a group of free Black people and runaway slaves (maroons) that joined forces with the Seminole Indians in Florida against U.S. forces from approximately 1700 through the 1850s. The Black Seminoles were celebrated for their bravery and tenacity during the three Seminole Wars.

·  Concerning Black Indians in the eastern United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Katz says, "Despite every European effort to keep one dark people from assisting the other, the two races began to blend on a vast scale. Black Indians were apparent everywhere if one bothered to look…Katz concludes that by the 1800s, "Native Americans east of the Mississippi had become a biracial people.” – William Loren Katz, Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage. Katz reports that the historical record, including many legislative documents, indicates that white colonialists saw the existence of nearby Native-American tribes and nations as a threat to the slave system. For one thing Native Americans were in the habit of providing refuge to escaped slaves. Furthermore there was the seemingly ever-present threat of Red and Black people joining together in military action against the expansion of a system that took Native American land and African freedom.

·  1869 – Abolitionist Fredrick Douglass argued on behalf of Chinese immigration and against fear and ignorance in his “Composite Nation” speech.

·  1960s – Alliances between the Chicago Black Panther Party, Young Lords Organization, and Young Patriots leads to banding together to form the Rainbow Coalition group.

·  1960s – Yellow Peril Supports Black Power

·  1962 – Democratic Coalition Meeting in Austin, Texas 

·  1963 – Democratic Coalition Relaunched in Dallas, Texas

·  1977 – At the National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas the term “women of color” is coined after “minority women” in attendance approach the women part of the Black Women’s Agenda group, wanting to be included.

·  1981 – A Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (anthology)

·  1998 – Living for Change: An Autobiography by Grace Lee Boggs

·  2004 – Impossible Subjects by Mae Ngai

·  2005 – Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles by Laura Pulido

·  2010s – “Abolish ICE” is eventually backed by people, politicians and organizations from various backgrounds. 

·  2011 – Occupy Wall Street Protests & Movement (though Zuccotti Park’s was very white)

·  2013 – Black-Brown Solidarity: Racial Politics in the New Gulf South by John D. Márquez

·  2015 – The Black Ivy Coalition and students of all backgrounds nationwide stands in solidarity with University of Missouri activists who were rallying against unaddressed institutional racism and oppression on campus.

·  2016 – Black Lives Matter (plus Millions March NYC, Copwatch Patrol Unit, Equality for Flatbush & NYC Shut It Down) stands with Dakota Access Pipeline 

·  2016 – Blue Texas: The Making of A Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era by Max Krochmal

·  2018 – Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics (anthology)

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