By The Numbers

By The Numbers – Prelude To War

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”Continental Congress […]

Black History Month

The Example

There have been over 4700 lynchings in the United States between 1882 and 1968. Seventy-two percent or 3446 were African Americans according to the NAACP and Tuskegee University, although the records don’t seem to include […]

Picking Cotton (ca. 1890) by William
Black History Month

Disrespectful

“That devil Forrest must be hunted down and killed if it costs ten thousand lives and bankrupts the federal treasury.” – Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman 1864One of the most atrocious and godless crimes of the […]

Black History Month

Not In Duluth…

Typically when you think about lynchings, you think about the deep south and how historically it was known for hanging from the highest tree they could find, disrespectful black folks. However, during the Red Summer […]