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  Prisonculture prisonculture.bsky.social · Feb 3
  This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.
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    Equal Justice Initiative eji.org · Feb 3
    On this day in 1948, an all-white jury sentenced a Black woman and two of her teenage sons to death for killing an armed white man in self-defense.
    

    Feb. 3, 1948 | Black Woman and Her Children Sentenced to Die for Defending Themselves

    Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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