jim crow
Five remarkable facts about Emmet Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, you should know
Mamie Till-Mobley was considered the godmother of the civil rights movement in the mid-1900s. She devoted herself to fighting racial injustice after the gruesome murder of her 14-year-old son in 1955. Emmet Till was accused of allegedly sexually harassing Carolyn Bryant, a white shopkeeper in Money, Mississippi. The world soaked in the barbaric details of…
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1928 Bunion Derby: when 5 African Americans proved to Ku Klux Klan that Blacks were suited to long distance running
For the five African Americans out of the 199 runners who were participating in the Bunion...
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Report: Hundreds More of African Americans Lynched Than Previously Thought
While African-American communities throughout the United States continue to reel over the police...
