The 1981 Lynching that Bankrupted an Alabama KKK
On the night of March 21, 1981, a cross crackled and burned on the lawn of the Mobile County courthouse—the Ku Klux Klan’s grim protest...
Author : joe bodego
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Joseph L. Graves, Jr., is an expert in evolutionary genetics who has studied the process of aging through the reproduction of fruit flies. Another of...
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William A. Hinton was born on December 15, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents had both been enslaved. He entered Harvard College in 1902 and...
A WWI–Era Memo Asking French Officers to Practice Jim Crow With Black American Troops
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A French Directive Citation Information: ”A French Directive,” The Crisis, XVIII (May 1919), p. 16-18. The following directive was published without comment in The Crisis...
Mabel Byrd
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Mabel Byrd, a trailblazing figure in the history of education, made significant strides as the first African American student to enroll at the University of...
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