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#tdih thread. Begins #tdih 1829 w/ publication of David Walker's "An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World." Gov't. made distribution illegal, so it was "sewn into linings of clothes... smuggled ashore from ships when they docked in port..." Read ⬇️zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/appe…
#tdih 1868 Opelousas Massacre. Began when KKK-like Knights of White Camelia beat teacher & newspaper editor Emerson Bentley because he had promoted voter registration and education for all. #TeachReconstruction Read ⬇️zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sept…
#tdih 1874, encampments of Comanches, Kiowas, Kiowa Apaches, Cheyennes, and Arapahos were attacked by the Fourth United States Cavalry in the Palo Duro Canyon. Massacre and forced relocation. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/palo…
#tdih 1919 100 years ago today. Omaha, Nebraska. A white mob of between 5,000 to 15,000 lynched African American Will Brown. Part of a national pattern of white mob violence during 1919 known as Red Summer. Read more & see textbook critique. ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/omah…
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