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In 1940, George Snow Hill, painter and muralist for the Federal Art Project, a New Deal program, was commissioned by the federal...

John Evans was lynched at Ninth Street (now Dr. Martin Luther King Street) and Second Avenue South on Tuesday, November 12, 1914, by a...

Parker Watson was lynched at the hands of a group of armed men wearing masks after being taken from three police officers on the evening...

Recently, I was in Montgomery, AL attending the Equal Justice Initiative’s Peace and Justice Opening. The two-day event included the...

I haven’t forgotten part 2 of the story of Mercy Hospital but I was recently reminded, by Senator Rouson, that this year marks the 150th...

Roxanna Simpkins Donaldson was quoted in an October 1963 edition of the St. Petersburg Times saying, “I was born in Saluda, SC. Came to...

Modern policing in America has roots that go back centuries. It is a confluence of the watch groups in the northern colonies and the...