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Tennessee lawmakers adjourn without addressing race, reform
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Mississippi lawmakers vote to remove Confederate emblem from flag
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Hugo Black
Hugo Black , in full Hugo La Fayette Black (born February 27, 1886, Harlan, Clay county, Alabama, U.S.—died September 25, 1971, Bethesda, Maryland), lawyer, politician, and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1937–71). Black’s legacy as a Supreme Court justice derives from
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Ku Klux Klan trials began
Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford, Mississippi. Many whites, including doctors, lawyers, ministers and college professors, were arrested and jailed in the anti-Klan campaign. Of the 930 indicted in Mississippi, 243 were tried and found guilty. Some 1180 were indicted in South
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20
1871
After KKK Facebook Post, Georgia High School Athletic Director Investigated
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Clergy and Residents to City: Address Police Brutality and Socioeconomic Inequities
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Bringing down the symbols of hatred –
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VIDEO: Activists demand D.C. ‘Defund’ police amid peaceful protests after city renames street ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’
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Exactly one hundred and thirty-six years to the day after Ida B. Wells was thrown off a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad train, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation for her “outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans in the era of
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Rice University’s Black Students Association Demands Addition Of Black Safe Space On Campus
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KKK activities effects Oklahoma
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1923
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1868
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KKK redirects here. The Ku Klux Klan (pronounced /ˈ k uː ˈ k l ʌ k s ˈ k l æ n, ˈ k j uː/),[a] commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, is the name of three distinct movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary positions such as white supremacy, white
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1865
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The Quora Digest website and the tenticles of racist propaganda
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Garveyism Looks Toward the Pacific: The UNIA and Black Workers in the American West
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