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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. ....

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Black History From the Year You Were Born


Black History From the Year You Were Born
By
Niesha Davis, Stacker News
On 2/9/21 at 6:30 PM EST
Each February, Black History Month is dedicated to celebrating the achievements, and reflecting on the experiences, of African Americans. What began as a week in 1926 has blossomed into 28 days of remembrance and lessons on the contributions of Black Americans.
Many Black Americans come from a lineage of captured and enslaved people who were forcibly brought to the U.S. to build the culture and infrastructure of a place in which they never asked to live. Forced immigration and centuries of cultural genocide have driven Black Americans to literally and figuratively rebuild a culture from the ground up. In the face of historical oppression and inequality slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the police violence that spawned the #BlackLivesMatter movement African Americans have continuously fought for their rights and spawned countless milestones, achievements, and freedoms. ....

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