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Why Malcolm X said white people should be like abolitionist John Brown
theGrio via AOL· 1 year agoOPINION: To commemorate the civil rights leader's birthday, we looked back at what Malcolm X had to...
John Brown was a violent crusader, but he blazed a moral path that the cautious Lincoln followed to...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 months agoPresident Lincoln was a statesman. John Brown was a radical. That’s the traditional view of how each...
Public invited to John Brown House event in Akron marking abolitionist's birthday
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThe public is invited to an open house from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at the John Brown House,...
What to America is John Brown?
Salon via Yahoo News· 6 months agoCapture of John Brown in the engine house The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images On December 2, 1859, the United States saw its first execution...
Davis: My granddad, and how he put the hero John Brown on my mind
The Fayetteville Observer via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI grew up on Fort Bragg, but I was born in small-town Albemarle. While my military community was...
Wilhelm: Abolitionist's family retreated to Put-in-Bay
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMost of us are familiar with the name John Brown, the famous abolitionist who believed in using violence to bring an end to slavery in America. He openly fought for slaves' freedom even before ...
John Brown’s place in history honored on anniversary of his death
WDVM via Yahoo News· 6 months agoSHARPSBURG, Md. (DC News Now) — It was more than a century and a half ago, but a raid on an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, W.Va. led to the end of slavery in the United States. John Brown was executed ...
John Brown Day 2023 to commemorate Russell Banks
Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMay 4—LAKE PLACID — John Brown Day 2023, set for Saturday, May 13, will be dedicated to the late award-winning novelist Russell Banks, who died in January. His 1998 novel, "Cloudsplitter," revived ...
Harpers Ferry Raiders descendants at John Brown Day
Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMay 19—LAKE PLACID — Capt. John Brown Raiders John Henry Kagi and Lewis Sheridan Leary were represented by their descendants at John Brown Day 2023, dedicated to the late Russell Banks in Lake ...
Russell Banks, praised author of 'Cloudsplitter,' dies at 82
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRussell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet...
