Kenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda (also known as KK) was a Zambian teacher, independence leader, and politician who served as the first President of Zambia from 1964 to...
Author : joe bodego
The Lynching of Norris Dendy
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On July 4, 1933, a white mob in Clinton, South Carolina, dragged 35-year-old Norris Dendy from his cell in the local jail, brutally beat him,...
Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States
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Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964): A Landmark Victory for Civil Rights and the Commerce Clause In the summer of 1964, President...
Atlanta Hotel Denies Room to Nobel Laureate Dr. Ralph Bunche (1962)
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On June 28, 1962, a hotel in Atlanta denied a room to Dr. Ralph Bunche, a distinguished diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, solely because...
Subtle Barriers: Segregation’s New Face
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The overt symbols of segregation have vanished, but the underlying patterns of division persist in quieter, more complex ways. During the Jim Crow era, exclusion...
On June 27, 1911, a large mob of several hundred unmasked white men in Walton County, Georgia, lynched two Black men, Tom Allen and Joe Watts.
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The killings occurred after local judge Charles H. Brand declined offers of protection from state troops, despite knowing for weeks that mob violence was likely....
The Lynch Law: From Revolutionary Frontier Justice to Racial Terror
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The term “Lynch Law” (later “lynching”) occupies a dark and complex place in American history. Its origins lie in the patriotic zeal and wartime exigencies...
Charles Lynch
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Charles Lynch was a Virginia planter, justice of the peace, politician, and militia colonel whose extrajudicial actions during the American Revolutionary War originated the term...
The FilmToaster
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The FilmToaster is a specialized film digitization tool invented by Cecil J. Williams in 2015. It is a passive camera scanning platform designed to quickly...
Cecil J. Williams
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Cecil J. Williams (born November 26, 1937) is an acclaimed American photographer, publisher, author, inventor, and civil rights documentarian from Orangeburg, South Carolina. He is...