Author : joe bodego

History

Sheriff Walter Clark

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Sheriff Walter Clark’s involvement in the 1935 lynching of Rubin Stacy remains one of the most debated and damning aspects of his long tenure as...
History

The Lynching of Rubin Stacy

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A Grim Chapter in Florida’s History On July 19, 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, a 30-year-old Black tenant farmer named Rubin Stacy...
Politics

Senator Richard B. Russell Jr

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The Southern Sentinel Richard Brevard Russell Jr., the longtime U.S. Senator from Georgia, embodied the contradictions of the 20th-century American South. A masterful legislator who...
Politics

The New Deal Coalition

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Forging America’s Political Landscape In the depths of the Great Depression, as breadlines snaked through American cities and farms withered under dust storms, a new...