Don Palabraz

Subversive Historian – 03/09/10

{The lynching of her three friends was the start of Ida B. Wells’ campaign against the vile crime} The Lynching of Moss, McDowell and Stewart Back in the day on March 9th, 1892, a white mob in Memphis, Tennessee lynched Thomas Moss, Clavin McDowell, and Henry Stewart. The three African-American men had just recently opened “The People’s [...]

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Subversive Historian – 07/02/09

The East St. Louis Riots Back in the day on July 2nd, 1917 racist violence against African-Americans erupted in East St. Louis. Tensions had been growing in the months leading up to the one of the bloodiest race riots in U.S. history. On July 2nd, racist violence reached its cruelest crescendo as wanton rioting broke out [...]

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