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Jeffrey L. Littlejohn

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Juneteenth, Jim Crow

How the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom.

by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Zachary Montz via The Conversation on June 16, 2023
Family Photos: A Vacation, a Wedding Anniversary and the Lynching of a Black Man in Texas

If Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had his way, the state’s past of lynching Blacks would be taught as an exception rather than the rule. History tells a different story.

by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn via The Conversation on May 30, 2022
Lynching In Texas

A website with documents, maps, and essays about the lynchings that occurred in Texas between 1882 and 1945.

by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn via Sam Houston State University on January 1, 2019

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Drawing of a memorial, with two cutout, brown walls at the front of a walkway that read: reckoning. At the end of the walkway is a monument with a picture of Fred Rouse, and an inscription below it.

Fort Worth's Forgotten Lynching: In Search of Fred Rouse

Retracing the steps of a Texan lynched in 1921 requires a trip through dark days in state history.

by Karen Olsson via The Texas Observer

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