Civil Rights leader Dr. Benjamin Hooks has died today in his Nashville,Tennessee home,at the age of 85, after battling a long illness. Dr. Hooks served a 15-year tenure atop the NAACP,which was 1 million dollars in debt and its membership was down to 200,000 – less than half its total from a decade earlier,when he took […]
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Civil Rights Hero,Pioneer,And Much-Loved Leader,Dr. Benjamin Hooks,85, Dies
April 15, 2010
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‘Hang the Jew’,the curious case of The People v. Leo Frank
November 2, 2009Tonight on PBS will air “The People v. Leo Frank,” a must-see documentary about the only known Jew to be lynched in the American South, Monday, Nov. 2, at 10 p.m. Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American man who became the only known Jew to be on lynched American soil.(Source […]
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