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including the one at Loop College in Chicago in 1970, Hamer disclosed that one of the officers present that morning was S. L. Milam, the brother of one of the men who lynched fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in 1955.59 His presence at her home that morning was meant to terrify Hamer, sending a warning that her efforts to expand voting rights in the st
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune (Significations)
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The American Pageant were often used in “advanced placement”
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a belief
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Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
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policies.
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Southerner, Wilson had been president of Princeton, the only major northern university that flatly refused to admit blacks. He was an outspoken white supremacist—his wife was even worse—and told “darky” stories in cabinet meetings.
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Rosa Parks was first an organizer for the NAACP who investigated the sexual assaults of Black women by White men. Rape was a ritual of racial terror wielded against the spirits of Black women. Accusations of rape were a tool of racial terror threatening Black men. What remains harder to address is the way sexual violence exists inside Black communi
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