By Victor Trammell Photo credits: The New York Times On December 7, 1874, ragingwhite mobs bombarded a large number of Black people in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Blacks hadorganized a civic assembly in support of a legitimately elected Black sheriff who wasunjustly overthrown. During the Reconstruction Era, which succeeded theEmancipation and Civil War, Black Mississippians made […]
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