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So in this series of “By The Numbers – Jim Crow,” we will start in 1881. To give you an idea of the type of environment African Americans faced down South, let me just give […]

Last week we explored Abraham Lincoln and his legacy regarding racism in the White House. So far we have talked about 16 presidents. James Buchanan was the last president to own slaves and he served […]

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not […]

“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 […]

“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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]