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On the night of August 7, 1930, the small city of Marion, Indiana became the site of one of the most infamous and haunting episodes of racial violence in American history—the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. What makes this event particularly searing in the American consciousness isn’t just the brutality of the act.
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Josephine Baker is mainly remembered for her erotic and provocative dances, vaudeville routines, and appearances in films. However her efforts to fight the tyranny of Fascism have received very little attention. She was born as Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother, Carrie, was adopted in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1886 by Richard
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The history of the Trump family has been the subject of considerable public interest, particularly following Donald Trump’s rise to prominence in U.S. politics. One of the most contentious aspects of this family history is the connection between Fred Trump, Donald Trump’s father, and an incident involving the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in 1927. While
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The title of this post is a quote engraved in the Marble reception hall of the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten in the Netherlands. The cemetery was created in October 1944 under the leadership of Joseph Shomon of the 611th Graves Registration Company as the Ninth United States Army pushed into the Netherlands
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Recently, I made the mistake of referring to my local petrol station, “Circle K,” as “Triple K,” I suppose it could be considered a Freudian slip. I remember back in 1998, there was talk about a KKK chapter in Ennis, Ireland. Thankfully, that appeared to be a false claim. However, there is this notion that
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The Ku Klux Klan has survived for more than 150 years. Its ideology of hatred and white supremacy continued to attract new members through the Holocaust, the civil rights movement, and the election of America’s first black president. It seems unbelievable that hatred could live on for that long, that anyone in the modern world
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