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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
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In a startling scene that underscores the absurdity of white supremacist practices, the police officer charged the driver for driving a bus that was “too yellow.” The officer’s “reasoning” was that the bus was deceptive—too closely resembling a school bus.
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Donald Trump had taken full page ads in several newspapers urging the death penalty, which helped whip up public opinion.
Sara Davidson • The Didion Files
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
... See moreKeisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Elmer M. Ellsworth, a special assistant to Governor Winship, was a member of this hand-picked jury.
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
October 2, 2006, Charles Carl Roberts IV walked into an Amish schoolhouse carrying a weapon.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Walker soon became disgusted by Frémont’s self-promoting histrionics and rank cowardice in the field – a combination he found particularly loathsome. They
Richard Grant • Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
Introduced to a party of people who ignore their own chauffeur, he protests: “I have not met this gentleman