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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
“Our Constitution is color-blind,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Harlan proclaimed in his dissent to Plessy v. Ferguson, the case that legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896. “The white race deems itself to be the dominant race in this country,” Justice Harlan went on. “I doubt not, it will continue to be for all time, if it remains true to its
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PORTER v. BOWEN, Opinion of the Court
the Supreme Court heard the Dred Scott case. They later ruled that no Black person, enslaved or free, in a Southern or Northern state, could be considered a United States citizen. It was a pivotal time in American history. The Missouri Compromise—which banned slavery in new territories above the southern border of Missouri—was invalidated.
Fawn Weaver • Love & Whiskey
I went through the well file you uploaded (**EK Penrose Sand Unit #101, Seely Oil Company, API 30-025-39098**) and here’s what it shows:
* Legal location: Sec 19, T18S, R34E, Lea County, NM (exact section we’ve been tracking).
* Operator: Seely Oil Company.
* Lease number: Clearly tied to NMNM 116168 (see the C-102 on page 2 and throughout the APD
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The Clotilda arrived in Mobile Bay in July of 1860, fifty-two years after the slave trade was declared illegal. Slave traders broke the law by importing captured Black people, either from Africa or the Caribbean, and secretly depositing the cargo at hidden locations along the Gulf Coast. It was a lucrative game of cat and mouse. With the Clotilda,
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