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  2. Lynching of Laura and L. D. Nelson - Wikipedia

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    The men went to the women's cells and removed Laura, described by the newspaper as "very small of stature, very black, about thirty-five years old, and vicious". [39] According to a July 1911 report in The Crisis (the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ), and a female witness who said she had seen the ...

  3. Mammy stereotype - Wikipedia

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    Black women in positions of power are often seen as the “Modern-day Mammy”, now which refers to a well-educated and successful Black woman within the upper/upper middle class who “uphold[s] white-dominated structures, institutions, or bosses at the expense of [her] personal [life].” [33] This is a derivative of the original “Mammy ...

  4. Emmett Till - Wikipedia

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    Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American youth, who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.

  5. Dorothy Lavinia Brown - Wikipedia

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    After finishing high school, Brown attended Bennett College, a historically black college in Greensboro, North Carolina. She received a scholarship from the Women's Division of Christian Service of the Methodist Church. [11] Brown earned money during this period as a domestic helper. She was aided by a Methodist woman, of the Division of ...

  6. Lynching of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The lynching of Black women has sometimes been understudied by academics and overlooked by the general public. The role of white women as perpetrators of lynching is also understudied. [1] Between 1865 and 1965, of around 5,000 Black lynching victims, between 120 and 200 Black women and girls were lynched, or around 3% to 4% of all victims. [2]

  7. Keshia Thomas - Wikipedia

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    Keshia Thomas (born c. 1978) is an African-American woman and human rights activist known for a 1996 event at which she was photographed protecting a man believed to have been a Ku Klux Klan supporter.

  8. Rosa Parks - Wikipedia

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    As of 1940, less than 0.1% of Black Montgomerians were registered to vote. [38] Encouraged by NAACP activist E. D. Nixon, Parks attempted to register three times beginning in 1943, finally succeeding in 1945. [39] In her capacity as secretary, Parks began investigating the gang rape of Recy Taylor, a Black woman from Abbeville, in 1944. [40]

  9. Izola Curry - Wikipedia

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    Izola Curry (née Ware; June 14, 1916 – March 7, 2015) was a woman who attempted to assassinate the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. She stabbed King with a letter opener at a Harlem book signing on September 20, 1958, during the Harlem civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s.