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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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Wrongfully Arrested Then Lynched: The 1934 Killing of Robert Johnson in Jim Crow Florida

In late January 1934, Robert Johnson, a 40-year-old Black man, was wrongly arrested for assaulting a white woman in...