Tag: January 6
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When commitment becomes extreme
Mary Surratt and John Wilkes Booth believed they had a moral obligation to kill the president. Today 39% of Republicans believe violent action is sometimes called for.
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Repeating our History
Election Day, 1920, Orange County, FL, the county where I grew up. Black groups had been conducting voter registration drives. When Mose Norman, a Black man, tried to vote, a white mob went after him. In the next two days homes of nearly all of Ocoee’s Black families were destroyed by fire. Some estimates are…
Nancy Werking Poling 