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Plantation Tourism Continues to Raise Questions

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By Daniel R. Biddle, Sara Rimer, Aaryn Urell
| eji.org
Nathan Bryan Whitfield enslaved hundreds of men, women, and children over four decades at his family’s plantations in Alabama and North Carolina. He not only forced them to do the backbreaking labor of planting and picking cotton, but he also made scores of them walk 700 miles from North Carolina to Demopolis, Alabama, where white enslavers in the 1830s were, in his words, “getting rich rapidly.” He named his 1,280-acre Demopolis plantation Gaineswood.
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The Kiss

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By Sara Rimer
| theemancipator.org
This story was first published by The Equal Justice Initiative. A bright, warm afternoon in late October 1958, in rural Monroe, North Carolina: two Black children, nine-year-old James Hanover Thompson and his eight-year-old friend David “Fuzzy” Simpson, were playing with a group of White boys and girls in the yard next to one of the White children’s homes.
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The History of Violent Opposition to Black Political Participation

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By Dan Biddle, Sara Rimer, Claire Gelbart
| eji.org
Lamar “Ditney” Smith knew the dangers of helping Black citizens vote in Mississippi in 1955. He had received death threats, and knew about many Black people who had been lynched in his county. In May, white men had killed another Black activist, the Rev. George W. Lee, for registering voters in Mississippi.
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