This is the grave of Emmett Till. You know, I don't really have anything to say here. We all the know the story of Emmett Till. We all know the horrors of lynching and the terribleness of a murderous Jim Crow society that allowed and...
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This is the grave of Rebecca Latimer Felton and William Felton. Born in Decatur, Georgia in 1835, Rebecca Latimer grew up in the slaver class, something she always loved and.
We continue our needed lessons on the history of American colonization of northern Mexico, desperately needed by a racist group of LGM commenters who seem to think that "people move.
This is the grave of Thomas Moss. Thomas Moss was born into slavery in Mississippi in 1853. Like many Black people after slavery, he headed north to Memphis, where he started to find his own way. He became something of a leader in the Black...
On March 9, 1892, Memphis whites lynched three Black men--Thomas Moss, Will Stewart, and Calvin McDowell--who had dared to challenge white economic superiority in their community by opening a store.
Moscow Mitch can try to claim that the filibuster has no connection to racism but any historian knows that's a complete lie, even more bald-faced than your usual Mitch lie:.
I was familiar with the Columbia, Tennessee race riot of 1946 because of its importance in the Black freedom struggle developing immediately after World War II. What I did not know is that it nearly cost Thurgood Marshall his life after the NAACP sent him...
How can this possibly be justified? A federal appeals court has ruled that grand jury evidence long sought by civil rights activists and historians in a 1946 mass lynching case.
Today, the House passed the Emmitt Till Federal Anti-Lynching Act, by a 410-4 vote. Wait, what? Four people against a federal anti-lynching law? Who is this part of the Congressional.
This is...wow. Decades after lynching was used to intimidate and terrorize blacks in the South, the deadly tactic continues to have a chilling effect on whether African Americans decide to cast ballots in elections today.Research by Clemson University economic historian Jhacova Williams shows black Southerners...
Above: The lynching of Frank Tafoya, Las Vegas, New Mexico, 1882 As I have stated many times, it's very frustrating to me to see how both liberals and the left.
Given that the government is reopening the investigation into Emmett Till's lynching, it's worth thinking about lynching a little bit. Mostly, when we think about lynching, we think about black.