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Today in History, March 25

In this May 1, 1935 file photo, attorney Samuel Leibowitz from New York, second left, meet

African-American men say racial tensions always there

ELLENVILLE >> Nowadays, it all makes sense to Theo LeeBoo. As an African-American man making his way through life, he understands why his mother waited up for him whenever he would go out at night with his teenage friends in Brooklyn. “She’d call me, call me, call me, and I knew she’d have to work […]

Shelia Washington Dies at 61; Helped Exonerate Scottsboro Boys

Shelia Washington Dies at 61; Helped Exonerate Scottsboro Boys She fought for decades to get their names cleared from an egregious injustice in the Jim Crow South, and created a museum in their honor. Shelia Washington in an undated photo at the spot where the Scottsboro Boys were arrested. She recognized that their story was an important milestone in the annals of civil rights, and was determined that it be remembered. “The story dies if we don’t tell it,” she said.Credit...William H. Hampton Published Feb. 26, 2021Updated Feb. 27, 2021 Shelia Washington was cleaning her parents’ room at their home in Scottsboro, Ala., in the 1970s when she discovered a paperback book hidden in a pillowcase underneath the bed.

Sheila Washington Dies at 61; Helped Exonerate Scottsboro Boys