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Ida B. Wells
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Documents
REGARDING SLAVERY:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/founding-fathers-and-slaveholders-72262393/
Thomas Jefferson: https://www.monticello.org/slavery-at-monticello/liberty-slavery/enlightenment-influence-racism-notes-state-virginia-1781
George Washington: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/george-washington-abolition-slavery-1786
Senator John Calhoun: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/slavery-a-positive-good/
David Walker’s Appeal (1830): https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/walker/walker.html
James Forten: A Man of Colour https://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/glc06046
Senators Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner: https://www.ushistory.org/us/31e.asp
Governor of Georgia Alexander H. Stephens (1895) and secessionist-self declared VP of Confederate States of America: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-
REGARDING BLACK CODES (SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME-POST CIVIL WAR):
https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/black-codes/
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM:
TORCH THEATER.org 