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The footage of Lynd and some of Watkins was aired as a "CBS Reports" program called "Mississippi and the Fifteenth Amendment." It has since been re-released on DVD as "Mississippi and the Black Vote." Watkins was with Hartman Turnbow and others when Turnbow tried to register to vote at the Holmes County Courthouse. That night there was a ...
On August 16, 1917, Senator James K. Vardaman of Mississippi spoke of his fear of black veterans returning to the South, as he viewed that it would "inevitably lead to disaster." [6] To the American South, the use of black soldiers in the military was a threat, not a virtue. "Impress the negro with the fact that he is defending the flag ...
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Memories of Black veterans, fallen soldiers, preserved in a "White Table" tradition
Copeland's grandfather survived the war, but her great-uncle was killed four days before Armistice Day driving a supply wagon and was buried in the Ardennes Forest. He now rests in Mississippi.
Commemorating the heroism of Black soldiers struggling to be free men as they served to end the Confederacy, the most concerted program of white supremacy in the nation’s history, would be an ...
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Their number of dead, at 66, was the highest number of killed in action of any Union regiment (black or white) during a single day in the entire Vicksburg campaign. [24] Furthermore, this figure of killed in action is 23 percent of their starting force - exceeding the 19 percent killed of the famous 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment at the Battle ...