
Bakari Sellers, "My Vanishing Country"
Lectures in History
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The Story of a Man's Trial in South Carolina
My father stayed in prison for about a a month while this bond was denied. They deemed him to be an outside agitator, until he was grind at a bond later. All the officers who fired shots into the group of students were tried, and they were all found not guilty. My father subsequently went to trial, and they back dated the indictment from february eighth to feb February sixth. And my father was charged, tried and convicted of rioting, becoming the first and only one man riot in the history of this country. When i was 20 years old, i told my ma an dad i was going to run for the south carolina state house. I had just
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