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The History of American Police and the Ku Klux Klan

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

Black Self Defense - I Can't Tell the Difference

Ypima continued that quote about black self defense. During red summer in washington d c, 17 year old carry johnson opened fire on men breaking into her home while a thousand white rioters laid siege to her neighborhood. In anniston, alabama, in december of 19 18, a black veteran sergeant edgar caldwell, was ordered out of the white section of a street car and set upon by the white motorman and conductor. Caldwell shot his pistol twice, killing one of his attackers,. though uncoordinated, when looked at together, these hundreds of moments in and leading up to ni 19 read is an awesome display of collective black agency and self preservation.

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