Editorial by Gary Meyer, TME

I’m hoping no one today is denying that Americans once hanged human beings for no reason other than they were dark-skinned.

I have to check on this because, today, some people claim that various horrific, historical events never took place.

In the years following the…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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The 1963 March On Washington where King gave his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech, one of the most famous orations in human history

Birmingham in 1963

an effigy of a Black person being dragged alongside a car

Leading a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965

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This is part of the January 20, 2023 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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