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12-05-2001, 01:38 PM
AP Documents Land Taken From Blacks Through Trickery, Violence and Murder
For generations, black families passed down the tales in uneasy whispers: ''They stole our land.''
These were family secrets shared after the children fell asleep, after neighbors turned down the lamps - old stories locked in fear and shame.
Some of those whispered bits of oral history, it turns out, are true.
In an 18-month investigation, The Associated Press documented a pattern in which black Americans were cheated out of their land or driven from it through intimidation, violence and even murder.
to read more
http://wire.ap.org/APpackages/torn/index.html
this should be a good hush discussion
p.s. this a long series .. it may take days to finish reading it all
For generations, black families passed down the tales in uneasy whispers: ''They stole our land.''
These were family secrets shared after the children fell asleep, after neighbors turned down the lamps - old stories locked in fear and shame.
Some of those whispered bits of oral history, it turns out, are true.
In an 18-month investigation, The Associated Press documented a pattern in which black Americans were cheated out of their land or driven from it through intimidation, violence and even murder.
to read more
http://wire.ap.org/APpackages/torn/index.html
this should be a good hush discussion
p.s. this a long series .. it may take days to finish reading it all