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Professor Gates teaches all of us (again!)

on Sun, 2019-11-10 13:22

"Southern 'Redeemers' snuffed out the first Black Power movement" 

From 2000 duly elected African American officials to zero in just 12 years - how gains of Reconstruction were obliterated, and only 70 years later did the damage too slowly begin to reverse. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/jim-crow-laws.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Gates' book, Stony The Road, is an even more shocking and thorough walk through this period of history we were never taught.