Don Salmon @dijoni · 12h This is what they used to do when they were lynching Black people. it was a white community picnic. Sometimes up to 10,000 would show up.. the the KU KLUX KLAN.
On March 10, 1865, Confederate soldiers hanged Amy Spain, a young Black woman, from a sycamore tree on the courthouse lawn in Darlington, South Carolina. Accused of “treason and conduct unbecoming a slave,” Amy was sentenced to death by a military tribunal and killed just weeks before the end ...
"After living with his father on a boat (large, looked almost like a cruise ship), my father went to work as a quartermaster on a boat that looked like the Delta Queen for several years and saved up for law school. He had a great knowledge of history and literature as a result of what we ...