1842 AFRICAN SLAVE REVOLT AGAINST THE CHEROKEE NATION
The Cherokee Indians were one of the largest tribes that held Africans as chattel slaves out of five other civilized tribes. By the early 1860s, the...
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Hundreds of Black men, women and children burned alive, shot, lynched by white mobs during Red Summer ignored century later
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America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, and yet today, 100 years later, not many people know it even...
Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson
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Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson was born on October 31, 1905, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Margaret Moultrie and William Johnson, earning his lifelong nickname from...
Frank Lucas
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As one of the country’s most notorious gangsters and drug kingpins, Frank Lucas led a very public life, even having his story depicted in the film...
THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY TEN-POINT PROGRAM
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Written October 15, 1966 1. We Want Freedom. We Want Power to Determine the Destiny of Our Black Community. We believe that Black people will...
Bobby Hutton
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Bobby Hutton was an influential figure in the civil rights movement in the United States. Born on April 21, 1950, in Jefferson County, Arkansas, Hutton...
Felix Wayne Mitchell (“Felix the Cat”)
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Felix Wayne Mitchell, better known as Felix the Cat, gained notoriety as a prominent drug kingpin in Oakland, California. Operating at the helm of the...
Before Emmett Till, 23-year-old George Armwood was dragged from jail, hanged and burnt in 1933
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Before the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955, the harrowing story of George Armwood in 1933 had sent shivers down the spines of the people...
The sad story of Pío Pico, California’s African Jesus who became powerful and influential through land ownership but died poor
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As with many things, the African presence in California and Los Angeles, in particular, had been shielded by historians till the City’s Bicentennial celebration in...
THE STORIES OF 5 BLACK WOMEN LYNCHED IN AMERICA
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Jennie Steers On July 25, 1903, a mob lynched Jennie Steers on the Beard Plantation in Louisiana for supposedly giving a white teenager, 16-year-old Elizabeth Dolan,...