J. Pharoah Doss: The NAACP, travel warnings, and Jim Crow cards | Chicago Defender

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J. Pharoah Doss: The NAACP, travel warnings, and Jim Crow cards | Chicago Defender

On May 4, 2017, in Missouri, Tory Sanders, a 28-year-old Black man, went to the police for psychiatric help. Sanders was taken to the county jail, where a mental health counselor recommended that he be hospitalized for observation. Eight hours later, Sanders died in jail. Sanders was beaten by police officers after an altercation. He … Continued

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by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier A 1965 history book by historian Samuel Eliot Morison discussed the Supreme Court case concerning a revolt aboard the Amistad, a Spanish slave ship, led by an African named Cinqué. After the Africans killed most of the Amistad’s crew, it was captured

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