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    Survivor Stories: Patsey

    Survivor Stories: Patsey

    Patsey, an enslaved Black woman, endured severe abuse at the hands of slave master Edwin Epps and his family.
    Survivor Stories: Joan Little

    Survivor Stories: Joan Little

    Joan Little was charged with first-degree murder in 1974 after stabbing a white prison guard who sexually assaulted her at Beaufort County j
    Survivor Stories: Margaret Garner

    Survivor Stories: Margaret Garner

    Margaret Garner, a Black enslaved woman, resolved to end the lives of her children so that they would not be returned to slavery.
    Survivor stories: Harriet Ann Jacobs

    Survivor stories: Harriet Ann Jacobs

    Harriet Jacobs endured sexual assault and intense labor before escaping to freedom and writing the first-ever autobiography by a Black slave
    My Grandfather Was Rosa Parks' Paperboy, She Remembered Him For Decades

    My Grandfather Was Rosa Parks' Paperboy, She Remembered Him For Decades

    I don't remember the moment I learned my late grandfather was Rosa Parks' paperboy, but the factoid added to the near-mythical ideation (and idolization) I had for the man — and his Blackness — as a brown girl trying to carve out a sense of self while growing up in a predominantly white region of upstate New York. My grandfather, William, was about 10 or 11 years old when he delivered the local newspaper to Parks and her husband in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1940s. There was
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