Isaac Myers was born a freeman in Baltimore, Maryland in 1835. The state of Maryland didn’t offer public education to black people so Myers attended a private day school. At
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September 9, 1739 Stono rebellion was a large revolt of enslaved people in the colony of South Carolina, near Stono River. The timing of the uprising is often tied to
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Born in Decatur, MS on July 2nd 1925, Medgar Wiley Evers was a civil rights activist and the first field secretary in the South for the NAACP. James and Jesse