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Mary Turner, the Pregnant Black Woman Lynched in 1918 for Condemning Her Husband’s Killers

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Mary Turner was an eight-month pregnant African American woman who, in 1918, faced a brutal lynching at the hands of a white mob in Lowndes County, Georgia. Her "crime" was daring to speak out against the lynching of her...
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Richard Mentor Johnson: The US Senator Who Lost His Seat for Loving an Enslaved Woman

Richard Mentor Johnson, a powerful U.S. senator from Kentucky who would later rise to the vice presidency, built a...