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Black History: The Black Women Who Helped America Reach the Moon
We have all heard the saying, “Behind every great man is a great woman,” well the NASA astronauts are no exception to this. The women behind the astronauts who reached the Moon were 3 Black mathematicians who had been largely left out of the history books until the recent film based on their story – […]
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Woman Who Caused Emmett Till’s Murder Admits to Lying
Emmett Louis Till was a Black teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. The white woman, Carolyn Bryant, claimed that Emmett whistled at her. This enraged some whites in the area and led to Emmett being murdered in August of 1955 by two white […]
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Never Forget: The 1998 Savage Lynching Of James Byrd Jr.
On June 7, 1998, a Black man in Jasper, TX was ‘lynched by dragging’ because he accepted a ride from three white men, one of whom he had known. James Byrd, Jr. was a 49-year-old father of one child, who was brutally killed after accepting a ride from Shawn Berry, a white male he had known […]
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Never Forget: The Horrific Lynching of Mary Turner and her Baby
The chain of events that led to the lynching of Mary Turner started in May of 1918 on Hampton Smith’s plantation in Brooks County, Georgia. Smith, a 31-year-old White man, was shot and killed by one of his Black workers named Sydney Johnson. After the slaves’ emancipation, many plantations in the South began to experience […]
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Never Forget: America’s Largest Slave Revolt Lead by Charles Deslondes
Over two-hundred years ago in 1811, the largest slave revolt in American history took place in New Orleans, Louisiana. During this revolt, about 500 enslaved Africans armed with pikes, hoes, axes, and a few firearms, marched on the city of New Orleans with one goal: to overthrow the city and establish a Black Republic. At […]
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Never Forget: Black Infants Used As Alligator Bait
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Never Forget: 10 Year-Old Clifford Glover Shot In The Back By NYPD
On April 28, 1973, a 10 year-old was executed on a street in South Jamaica, Queens. His name was Clifford Glover. He was walking with his step-father, when a car pulled up and out jumped 2 men with guns. Clifford and his father tried to run, fearing they were going to be robbed, but one of the gunmen fired. Before firing the fatal shot that would strike […]
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Never Forget: Race Riot of 1919 in Omaha -The Lynching of Will Brown
In the late 1800’s, Omaha, Nebraska, was a booming western city, that was soon to become number one in the world in livestock meat production. In the early 1900’s, nearly 80% of Omaha’s population of an estimated 125,000 people, had livestock related jobs. These workers were primarily of European decent and from 1910 to 1919, […]
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Never Forget: The Devil’s Punchbowl – 20,000 Freed Slaves Died After Being Forced Into Post Slavery Concentration Camp
History has always made concentration camps to be synonymous with the atrocities of Nazi Germany. But, America has its own dirty secrets about the use of concentration camps. These camps were located in Natchez, Mississippi and were used to corral freed slaves during and after the American Civil War. As slaves were being emancipated from […]
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Never Forget: 1917 East St. Louis Race War – 100 Blacks Shot, Burned and Clubbed to Death
East St. Louis back then was an industrial boom town with all kinds of conflicts and tensions between ethnic and political groups, workers, companies, and unions but despite this there were plenty of jobs. When World War I cut-off the flow of immigrants from Eastern Europe, companies went to the American South for a fresh supply of cheap […]
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Never Forget: In 1985 Police Dropped a Bomb on a West Philly Neighborhood; Killing 11 and Destroying 61 Homes
On May 13, 1985, at approximately 5:28 p.m., two, one-pound bombs were dropped onto a house at 6221 Osage Avenue. The bombs were dropped from about 60 feet above the house by a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter. It was recorded, that the 500+ police officers at the scene, fired approximately 10,000 rounds of ammunition in the direction of the house […]
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Never Forget: America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 Black Sharecroppers Were Murdered In Arkansas
In 1919, after the end of World War I, Black sharecroppers in Arkansas began to unionize. This attempt to form unions, triggered white vigilantism and mass killings, that left 237 Blacks dead. Towards the end of 1918, attorney Ulysses S. Bratton of Little Rock, Arkansas listened to Black sharecroppers tell stories of theft, exploitation, and […]
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Never Forget: George Stinney Jr – Executed At Age 14, Exonerated 70 Years Too Late
A miscarriage of justice took place in Alcolu, SC in March of 1944. A 14-year-old boy, George Stinney, Jr. was arrested, after two young white girls were discovered brutally murdered in a watery ditch. At the time of George’s arrest, he was home with his older brother and younger sister. George and his older brother […]
