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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1516781)	1/27/2025 2:01:29 PM
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The origin of woke.... How Woke Went From "Black" to "Bad" Legal Defense Fund Aug 26, 2022 — the use of “woke” as an in-group signal urging Black people to be aware of the systems that harm and otherwise put us at a disadvantage is documented as far back as the 1920s. The Jamaican philosopher Marcus Garvey, exhorting members of the Black diaspora in America, Jamaica, and elsewhere to join the cause of Pan-Africanism, called on them to “Wake Up!” By 1938, the ??iconic American Blues musician Lead Belly (born Huddie Ledbetter) had recorded the song “ Scottsboro Boys.” The ballad tells the true story of four Black youths who were falsely accused of raping a white woman in Scottsboro, Alabama, and subsequently convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to death — though they were thankfully freed after several appeals and trials. In the song, Lead Belly says of Alabama, “I advise everybody to be a little careful when they go down there. Stay woke. Keep your eyes open.”