The Forgotten Segregation Crimes In The United States Of America In Images

Anti-civil rights crime in America

"Dedicated To Congressman John Lewis, For His Selfless Fight For The Emancipation of black people." - Joel Savage

The white missionaries were the first to introduce the Bible in Africa or to the black man. In that Bible, it is written God created man in His own image, yet the black man became a target to all kinds of cruelties because of the color of his skin. 

Assassinated civil-rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr

What actually motivates some people to be so cruel to other people? Why many enjoy racial violence when this issue is meaningless despite no one lives forever?

Apartheid in the United States of America

"Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes and until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war." -

Women fighting for better treatment and equal rights in America

“Colonialism and its attitudes die hard, like the attitudes of slavery, whose hangover still dominates behavior in certain parts of the Western hemisphere." - Kwame Nkrumah

Arrested Civil Rights activist, John Lewis

"Before slavery was practiced in the New World, there was no special denigration of Africans. Travelers to this continent described the inhabitants in their records with natural curiosity and examination to be expected of individuals coming from different environments." -

One of the embarrassing photographs in America, a country that persuades every country to follow democracy

"It was when the slave trade and slavery began to develop ghastly proportions that made them the base of that capital accumulation which assisted the rise of Western industrialism, that a new attitude towards Africans emerged. 'Slavery in the Caribbean has been too narrowly identified with the man of color. A racial twist has thereby been given to what is basically an economic phenomenon." - Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Martin Luther King Jr.

"Slavery was not born of racism, rather racism was the consequence of slavery.' With this racial twist was invented the myth of color inferiority. This myth supported the subsequent rape of our continent with its despoliation and continuing exploitation under the advanced forms of colonialism and imperialism.” - Kwame Nkrumah