1955— Legendary educator Mary McLeod Bethune dies at 79 in Daytona Beach, Fla. Born the 15th of 17 children in Mayesville, S.C., Bethune would rise to become one of the nation’s foremost Black ...

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Habeas Corpus was also suspended in 11 South Carolina counties overrun by the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction, in two ...

The Know Nothings of the 1850s and the Northern Ku Klux Klan that surged in the 1910s and 1920s were very much about ...