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Lloyd L. Gaines: The Student Who Mysteriously Vanished After Winning a Segregation Case Against the University of Missouri

Lloyd Lionel Gaines was a civil rights pioneer who sued the University of Missouri for denying him admission to its law school solely because he was African American. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor, mandating that Missouri...
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Cordella Stevenson: The Woman Brutally Lynched by a White Mob for Her Son’s Alleged Crime

Cordella Stevenson was a Black woman living in rural Mississippi. In 1915, after her son was suspected of a...