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These Black Americans Were Killed for Exercising Their Political Right to Vote
In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...
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People died getting voting rights for Black men and women. It’s why you need to vote | Opinion
Three young men in Mississippi were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964 because they were helping to register Black men and women to vote.
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Hundreds gather at Fort Monroe to honor enslaved African people who died crossing the Atlantic
The event, hosted by The Sankofa Projects, was the 13th Annual International Day of Remembrance — a spiritual ceremony honoring African men ... who died at sea and the African Americans who ...
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The Revolutionary War
An estimated 100,000 African Americans escaped, died or were killed during the American ... did side with the Patriot cause. 5,000 black men served in the Continental Army, and hundreds more ...
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Freddie Stowers: An American hero who died fighting for France in World War One
Stowers was an African-American and ... Cpl Stowers continued to lead his men in an attack that ultimately succeeded in capturing Hill 188. He died on the battlefield, an American soldier in ...