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Movie reviews: The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till by Sakura Matsumura This is a story that shall touch generations to come. The story of a young 14 year old boy named Emmett Till. Emmett was a boy who grew up in the 1940's, during a time where the country was in racial turmoil. The period before the historical and mon... More> The Mississippi Civil Rights slayings of the 1960's by Rose's Petals Emmett Till was to spend his summer vacation with his relatives in Money, Mississippi. In the year of 1955, Emmett was a fourteen year old boy from Chicago. In that year, everything was still segregated, so when he had to use a train for transportat... More>
	Vigilante justice: Lynching by Stan Dyer Terrorism is a method of using the fear of violence and retaliation to coerce one group of people to conform to the wishes of another. In America, Black History contains volumes of episodes of terrorism used as a means to control Black populations. ... More> Solving old hate crimes by Marcus Brooks Emmett Till, Herbert Lee, Jimmie Lee Jackson and Mack Parker were a few of the dozens of young, black males murdered by the Klan and Southern police authorities. Reverend James Reeb, Viola Liuzzo, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner w... More>
The Ku Klux Klan in American history by Marcus Brooks In 1868, a former Confederate cavalry general, Nathan Bedford Forrest created a group aimed at "preserving the culture of Southern rule" over black freedmen. Former Rebel soldiers and officers as well as prominent, white landowners and politicians c... More> Assessing whether real men cry by Marcus Brooks Almost a year ago in May, I helped bury my grandmother. I've gone for months without crying. I saw a man get shot to death about 100 meters away from me. I didn't cry. Actually, the last time I cried was while watching a DVD about Emmett Till. I cri... More>
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