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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

In early July 1799 he summoned up the courage, in the seclusion of his study, to draft a remarkable new will. He did not use a lawyer and laboriously wrote out the twenty-nine pages in his own handwriting, disclosing his plans to nobody. In the text, he mentioned that “no professional character has been consulted,” observed that it had taken many “

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During the McCarthy hearings, afraid that any hint of a communist past might derail his career, my father gradually became vociferously anti-communist, pro-American, and one of the few Black Republicans at the time.

With so much ignorance coming from a left-leaning public intellectual in Washington, DC, in 1977, what could gays of Dade County expect from their run-of-the-mill Florida neighbors?

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In 2010, civil rights legend and Democratic congressman John Lewis claimed that he was berated by racial slurs—including the big one—as he entered Congress. Andrew got footage from several different angles that showed nothing of the kind. Further, he found that congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. was himself filming the entrance.