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The Moton Walkout and the "Lost Generation" (1951)

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Is It Safer to Protest in the Deep South?

i'm curious whether one of the reasons you see this early activism in places like maryland and virginia or topeca, kansas is there, is it safer than in the deep sout to protest a isit? Are you less likely to be responded to with a kind of abject, overt, overwhelming violence? I mean, safer, imit? Put an ast no, yes. It's still dangerous if pushing these boundaries, but i will say that there's more opportunity. Being in proximity to washington d c is also interesting as well, because for a long time you had black people who were working in the government sector,. And so some of that certainly spills

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