How a long-dead white supremacist still threatens the future of Virginia’s Indian tribes
Virginia’s Indian tribes have faced numerous obstacles in their decades-old quest for federal recognition. But one person has long stood in their way — and...
Less than a century ago, 20,000 people traveled to Kentucky to see a white woman hang a black man
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Daviess County sheriff Florence Thompson had held the position for only a few months when the Rainey Bethea case landed on her desk. Bethea had...
Anthony Crawford
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In Abbeville South Carolina Saturday, October 21, 1916, a white mob lynched a black leader named Anthony Crawford for cursing a white man. A 56-year-old...
Scars of Gordon, a whipped Louisiana slave, 1863
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The famous “whipped slave” photograph pictures the runaway slave Gordon exposing his severely whipped back to the camera of two itinerant photographers, William D. McPherson...
Ax Handle Saturday
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More than 200 white people wielding baseball bats and ax handles chased African Americans through the streets of downtown Jacksonville, trying to beat them into...
São João Baptista de Ajudá
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The “ Fortress of São João Baptista de Ajudá ”, also referred to as “ Feitoria de Ajudá ” or simply “ Ajudá ”, is...
Francisco Félix de Souza
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Born probably in 1768, Francisco Félix de Souza arrived in Africa in 1788, to take command of the fortress of São João Batista de Ajudá,...
Miskito
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The Miskitos are indigenous people in Central America. Their territory expands from Cape Camarón, Honduras, to Rio Grande, Nicaragua along the Mosquito Coast. There is...
8 Things We Know About Crispus Attucks
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On the evening of March 5, 1770, British troops fired into a crowd of angry American colonists in Boston who had taunted and violently harassed...