Laurel, Miss., native and author Jonathan Odell reflects on the summer of 1971 when he was a door-to-door salesman of the Ebony Pictorial History of Black America. As a young, white man brought up in white supremacy, Odell learned later that summer that Black history is for everyone. “You can’t understand Black history without reflecting on white history,” he writes. “We created this history together.”
“Veterans have tactical training, munitions expertise and weapons training that the white power movement wants because it is trying to wage war on the American government,” Kathleen Belew said. “In fact, this movement has directed recruitment specifically aimed at veterans and active-duty troops.”
Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman whose accusations led to the abduction and lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Money, Miss., in August 1955, has died at age 88.
“Watching racist members of the Tennessee Legislature bring all their power to silence who will now go into the history books as the #TennesseeThree is infuriating, familiar and exhilarating all at the same time,” Donna Ladd writes. “It is infuriating because this is what happens when people other than white men step up to exercise their First Amendment right to be loud and protest government decisions.”
“Petitioners’ claim fails because the State’s 1950 and 1968 enactments purged any taint from the 1890 law,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s Jan. 3, 2023, brief-in-opposition said.
“Voter intimidation has existed throughout American history, and it has almost always been directed at people of color,” Atiba Ellis writes.
“Civil Rights era murderers still living among us should be hunted down in the same manner as Nazi War criminals,” Melva L. Bradford writes.
The search for new evidence to bring legal accountability for those involved in the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era continues, filmmaker Keith Beauchamp says.
D’Monterrio Gibson, 24 years old, shared a letter with the Mississippi Free Press containing death threats directed toward him.
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