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Hutchen R. Hutchins, born on June 30, 1903, was part of a small but active cadre of African American Communists operating in the Pacific Northwest during the 1930s. Originally from the East Coast, Hutchins attended the Lenin School in Moscow in the late 1920s. In 1932 he was sent to Seattle by the
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28
1990
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In 1931 twelve year old Thomas J. Pressly witnessed the lynching of George Smith in Union City, the county seat of Obion County, Tennessee.  Now a University of Washington historian and Professor Emeritus, Dr. Pressley describes that lynching in the article
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18
1931
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25
2016
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12
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26
1937
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17
1980
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Morris, Morris W. / Lewis Morrison (1845-1906)
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4
1845
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17
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Uganda: One Killed, Plantations Destroyed in Land Row
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