Frances Luella Cress Welsing was an American psychiatrist and well-known proponent of the pseudoscientific melanin theory. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, offered h
Welsing receiving the Community Award at National Black LUV Festival on September 21, 2008
White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white people. White supremacy has
Frances Cress Welsing
…1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy), offered her interpretation of what she described as the origins of white supremacy culture. She was the author of The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (1991). Welsing was born Frances Luella Cress in Chicago on March 18, 1935. Her…
The Discovery of America (1844) sculpture, depicting a triumphant Columbus and a "female savage" (Native woman), which stood outside the U.S. Capitol
White men pose for a photograph of the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota lynchings. Two of the black victims are still hanging while the third is on the ground. Lynchings were often public spectacles for the white community to celebrate white supremacy in the U.S., and photos were often sold as postcards.
Ku Klux Klan parade in Washington, D.C. in 1926
The Good Citizen 1926, published by Pillar of Fire Church