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e Case for Reparations - Duke University
ssri.duke.eduApr 06, 2020 · American—he did not live under the blind decree of justice, but under the Sharecropper boys in 1936 (Carly Mydans/Library of Congress) The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic 4/6/20, 3:44 PM ... a mass exodus of 6 million African Americans that spanned most of the 20th century, was now in its second wave. !e black pilgrims ...
10 Great Men and Women Who Fought For Freedom, Justice …
www.franklinboe.orgFannie Lou Hamer was born to sharecropper parents on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi. As a child she worked in the fields alongside her parents. In the summer of 1962, Hamer attended a protest meeting where she met civil rights activists who were in Mississippi to encourage African Americans to register to vote. Hamer
Chapter 7 The African-American as Sharecropper I
www.digitalhistory.uh.eduAfrican-Americans often meant continuing to work the white man’s land or to work in his house. Seventy Years Later: The Slave’s Grandson The real meaning of the sharecropping and crop lien system some seventy years after slavery is