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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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The 39 Lashes Rule: How Slaveholders Punished Enslaved Africans Using Biblical Law

In slaveholding societies across the Americas, religion shaped daily life and plantation authority. Slaveholders attended church and often claimed...