Chief Joseph Chatoyer
Chief Joseph Chatoyer (also known as Satuye or Satuyé) was the paramount chief of the Garifuna (Black Carib) people of Saint Vincent in the late...
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Baliceaux
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The Forgotten Island Where a Nation Was Left to Die Off the coast of St. Vincent, in the turquoise waters of the Grenadines, sits a...
Ira Wilmer “Will” Counts Jr.
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Ira Wilmer “Will” Counts Jr. (August 24, 1931 – October 6, 2001) was an American photojournalist and educator best known for his powerful images documenting...
James Bonard Fowler
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James Bonard Fowler (September 10, 1933 – July 5, 2015) was an Alabama state trooper best known for fatally shooting civil rights activist Jimmie Lee...
Robert Chambliss
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Klan Activities and Violence Chambliss was linked to multiple acts of racial intimidation and violence in Birmingham from the 1940s onward. He was suspected of...
Albert Jennings “Al” Lingo
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Role During the Civil Rights Era (1963–1965) Lingo’s tenure coincided with intense conflict over desegregation and voting rights. Historians (including Dan T. Carter) and contemporary...
White People Should Stop Talking About Their Grandparents
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The myth of the “good grandfather” obscures a brutal history that demands humility, not celebration. When white Europeans, Americans, and Canadians speak of their grandparents,...
The 1934 Lynching of Claude Neal in Florida
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On the night of October 26, 1934, Claude Neal, a 23-year-old African American farmhand, was tortured and murdered by a white mob in Jackson County,...
The 1899 Lynching of Sam Hose
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On April 23, 1899, near Newnan in Coweta County, Georgia, a large white mob tortured and burned to death Sam Hose, a young African American...
Body Parts Taken as Souvenirs from Lynched Black Victims
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The practice of taking body parts as souvenirs from Black people who were lynched was a documented feature of many racial terror lynchings in the...