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Subversive Historian – 04/09/10

{’A Riot is the Language of the Unheard’ ~ MLK Jr} Stokely Carmicheal in Nashville Back in the day on April 8th, 1967, black power activist Stokely Carmichael delivered a speech at Vanderbilt University. As an invited guest to the Impact Symposium organized by students there, Carmichael’s arrival to Nashville, Tennessee a few days prior to [...]

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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 – 03/13/09

The Butler Act Back in the day on March 13th, 1925 the Tennessee State Legislature passed the Butler Act into law. Authored by John Washington Butler, a Tennessee farmer, the first section of the statute provided that it be unlawful for any teacher in a publicly funded educational institution to teach any scientific theory that invalidated [...]

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