Reblogged from The New Liberator:
SPEECH TO SNCC WORKERS, SELMA, ALABAMA
FEB.4,1965
To understand this, you have to go back to what young brother here referred to as the house Negro and the field Negro — back during slavery. There was two kinds of slaves. There was the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes – they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good ’cause they ate his food — what he left.
Happy Birthday Brother Shabazz! ~ May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965










