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Confederate monument stands at site of 1922 Arkansas lynching

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A lynching countenanced by the white press and church

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Some Protestant churches welcomed revival of the Ku Klux Klan

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Robert Vann’s Pittsburgh Courier set a pattern for what the Black press could do

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Freedom’s Journal marked the beginning of the Black press

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Simeon Booker among Black chroniclers of civil rights-era atrocities

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Black journalist Alexander M. Rivera, who covered Willie Earle lynching trial, recalls tension, fear

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NAACP head Walter White was a pioneering Black journalist

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Frederick Douglass founded newspapers to allow Black writers to tell their own stories

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James Weldon Johnson gave voice to Black people’s dignity and creativity