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Jan 5 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
How a white mob razed a Black town in Florida — and killed many of its residents — 100 years ago this month.
They got away with it.
Decades later, the truth was pieced together.
Florida provided reparations. ⁦@craigtimes⁩ #Rosewood smithsonianmag.com/history/how-hi…
Stunned to discover evidence of the #Rosewood massacre, the investigator “drove 45 miles to dig through historical records at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Librarians there assured him that no such event had occurred.”
A note that Rosewood occurred in this era, among a series of massacres of Blacks from Tulsa to D.C. by white mobs nationalgeographic.com/history/articl…

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So much of #Watergate didn’t become public for years, often decades, later. Thanks to @vermontgmg’s new history, we have a number of examples. Here are a few: 1/x
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New Vice President was chatting with a @Newsweek reporter when the reporter told him Nixon couldn’t survive the scandal—“and you’re going to be president.”
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How awful can Putin be? Time for “Navalny,” on @CNN nytimes.com/2022/04/24/mov…
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