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Three white men approached Lamar Smith, who during World War II had enlisted in the Army at the age of forty-nine, and who now, having returned from the war to build up a profitable farm, had enlisted in another battle: “He was determined,” an admirer would say, “that his people would have a say in local government.” The three men warned Smith to s

As Hamer and her associates prepared to leave, they saw that police officers had surrounded the old school bus in which they had traveled to the courthouse. Hamer later described the scene in vivid detail: “By the time the eighteen of us going in two by two had finished taking the literacy test—now there’s people, mind you, there that day with guns

Elmer M. Ellsworth, a special assistant to Governor Winship, was a member of this hand-picked jury.

October 2, 2006, Charles Carl Roberts IV walked into an Amish schoolhouse carrying a weapon.

Introduced to a party of people who ignore their own chauffeur, he protests: “I have not met this gentleman

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The white man behind it was Elihu Embree, an iron manufacturer and former slave owner who had evolved, at age thirty, into an abolitionist. Elihu mailed his newspapers to Southern politicians, intent on persuading them to end the horrors of slavery.

white supremacists sprayed sixteen bullets into the home where she had been staying with her friends Mr. and Mrs. Robert