civil rights

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…showed last 75 words of 1503 total…in Chicago could read The Chicago Defender, a black newspaper. People living in New York could read articles written by James Hicks in The Amsterdam Newspaper. In the north, racism was not as evident as it was in the south. If the sorrowful death of Emmitt Till and the somber fate of the Scottsboro nine could reach people oblivious to the atrocities going on, then maybe their deaths were significant, and not just for nothing