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In 1965, Alabama police brutally beat 600 voting rights marchers on a bridge named for a KKK Grand Dragon
About 600 civil rights marchers left Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma on March 7, 1965. They walked peacefully toward ...
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How Louisiana’s Cane River region nurtured a Creole culture that survived 300 years of change
The Cane River flows through northwest Louisiana where Caddo Indians once farmed corn and hunted deer. French explorer Louis ...
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The 1857 Supreme Court decision that called Black people “unfit to associate with the white race”
Roger Taney was born in 1777 to a wealthy Maryland family that owned slaves. Early in his career, he called slavery a “blot ...
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This enslaved preacher’s 1831 revolt terrified the South into passing America’s harshest slave laws
In August 1831, Turner led about 60 enslaved men in the deadliest slave revolt in U.S. history. They killed around 55 white ...
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This Tennessee landing belonged to the Cherokee Nation until it became their deportation point in 1838
In 1838-1839, the U.S. government forced about 16,000 Cherokee people to leave their homes and walk 1,000 miles to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. Many died from cold, hunger, and sickness along this ...