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by omegaworks
2765 days ago
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>It was only many years later that there were large migrations, after the reconstruction promises passed them over, "vagrancy" was heavily outlawed, and they effectively lost the vote. That's a really careful glossing over of the coordinated white supremacist terror campaigns that drove newly emancipated black Americans from their homes in the South. Olivia Hooker, the last eyewitness to the only bombs dropped on continental America, passed just last Wednesday at the age of 103. Her story is an incredible reminder of the sheer capacity for hate that remains unaccounted for in America still today: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/olivia-hooker-tul... |
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