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Are we civilized? 1918 Lynchings

November 18, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

San Francisco Call, 6 January 1919 1918 LYNCHINGS ACCORDING to the records compiled by Monroe N. Work, in charge of Records and Research of the Tuskegee Institute, there were 62 lynchings in 1918. This is 24 more than for the year 1917. Of those lynched, 58 were negroes and 4 were whites. Five of those … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Politics, Racism, Slavery Tagged: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, lynchings, Mississippi, MURDER, negroes, North Carolina, Oklahoma, rape, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Tuskegee Institute, Virginia, whites, Wyoming

Migrant Farm workers, 1940 California

January 1, 2021 by sergneri 1 Comment

Geyserville Press 5 January 1940 The FARMERS CORNER by RALPH H TAYLOR – Sec. Agricultural Legislative Committee of California California’s battle to escape being known the world over as the promised land of the migrant worker is still far from won. Wheezing relics of the nation’s second-hand car lots—the drab “covered wagons” of the victims … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: Arkansas, California, cotton picker, depression, drought, hoping for work, labor, migrants, Oklahoma, Texas

Dicamba in the Field …

August 29, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Monsanto and BASF, what could go wrong? Washington Post, Aug 29, 2017. “This miracle weed killer was supposed to save farms. Instead, it’s devastating them.”

Posted in: Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Arkansas, BASF, cotton, Monsanto, soybean

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