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Primary Sources: The Day the KKK F*cked Around and Found Out

A firsthand account of the gun-toting sharecropper who went John Wick against 50 armed Klansman

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Michael Harriot
Feb 05, 2025
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Instead of untold stories from Black history, ContrabandCamp’s Primary Sources series shares pure, uncut and rarely told stories from the past straight from the primary source. After all …

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In 1870, a white supremacist militia overthrew the government of North Carolina in what would become known as the …

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