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  2. Virginia City, Nevada - Wikipedia

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    Also in Virginia City is the Silver Queen Hotel and Wedding Chapel, [40] which is famous for its picture of a woman whose dress is made entirely of silver dollars. The hotel was built in 1876 and includes a saloon. Virginia City was declared a National Historic Landmark district in 1961, and has been carefully preserved to retain its historic ...

  3. Category:History of racism in the United States by state or ...

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  4. List of sundown towns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Jay's history is portrayed in the 2024 documentary Welcome to Jay. [38] Ocoee, Florida, was the site of a 1920 massacre that nearly eliminated its Black population. [39] The city issued a formal proclamation in 2018 that it was no longer a sundown town. [40] Zephyrhills, Florida, for a time did not allow Black people in its city limits. [41]

  5. Rural Nevada sheriff probes potential hate crime after Black ...

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    A rural Nevada sheriff is investigating a potential hate crime after a Black man who was collecting signatures for a ballot measure recorded a confrontation with another man he said directed a ...

  6. Three people arrested in rural Nevada over altercation that ...

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    Three people were arrested and charged Wednesday in connection with a verbal altercation last week in Virginia City, Nevada, during which a Black man said a racial slur was directed at him by a ...

  7. Family members arrested in rural Nevada over altercation that ...

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    Three members of a Nevada family have been arrested in connection with a verbal altercation last week in Virginia City, where a Black man from Texas said a racial slur was directed at him.

  8. W. H. C. Stephenson - Wikipedia

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    W. H. C. Stephenson (c.1825 – April 6, 1899) was a doctor, preacher, and civil rights activist in Virginia City, Nevada, and Omaha, Nebraska.He was probably the first black doctor in Nevada [1] and worked for the rights of blacks in that city.

  9. Racism in Hispanic and Latino American communities

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    The legal scholar Tanya Katerí Hernández has written that anti-Black racism has a lengthy and often violent history within the Hispanic/Latino community. [3] According to Hernández, anti-Black racism is not an individual problem but rather a "systemic problem within Latinidad" and that myths exist within the community that "mestizaje" exempts Hispanics/Latinos from racism.