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I was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett Till was lynched in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, and his brutalized, unrecognizable body later recovered from the Tallahatchie River. From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Roughly 73 %, or 3,446, were black people, and 27 % , or 1,297, were white people. Many whites were lynched because they were Republicans who supported their fellow black citizens and opposed the lawless act of lynching. Tuskegee University has the best documentation of lynching. It records an 1892 high of 69 whites and 161 blacks lynched. By the 1940s, occurrences of lynching fell to single digits or disappeared altogether.
Read moreHell froze over the week before the ice storm. That’s when a friend, and brother-from-another mother, called to say Governor Stitt turned him into a Democrat.
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He didn’t hang up on me. Instead, the man I’d always considered to be to the right of Atilla the Hun admitted he’d voted for a Democrat in his younger years.
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Students from across Oklahoma wheat country recently attended the 2020 Oklahoma 4-H/FFA Junior Wheat Show competition banquet at the Embassy Suites in Oklahoma City.
Read moreThe local American Legion is canceling its annual Veterans Day breakfast.
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Officers of the local FFA chapters participated Sept. 29 in the 2020 Oklahoma FFA Chapter Officer Leadership Training (COLT) Conference at the Stride Bank Center in Enid.
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Read moreThe response of administrators at the University of Oklahoma after a professor read a historical document that included a racial pejorative has left an impression on students-although perhaps not the impression OU administrators hoped to foster.
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