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Here's a stroll through our readers' memories of "the vibrant history of Seattle’s love affair with books."
Without dissent, we would have been silenced too.
From the end of the Second World War until the mid-'60s there was a wave of strikes in British East and West Africa, French West Africa, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The history of this class struggle has been neglected by both mainstream historians and most revolutionary tendencies based in Europe and the US.
The 1919 Elaine massacre--in which white mobs killed an unknown number of Black farmers in Phillips County--has finally begun to receive the attention it deserves from historians. The exact number of people murdered that fall in the cotton fields of the Arkansas Delta will never be known. Their story, however, must not be forgotten.