Ex-slave Bob Lemmons was born about 1850, in south Texas. He worked. He spent most of his life in Carrizo Springs in 45 miles from the Mexican border, and knew Billy the Kid.
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“We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.”
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Elderly African Americans who were once slaves work together in a rural setting in 1920
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Benjamin Sterling Turner (1825 – 1894)
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The Nation of Islam
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“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves”
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May 30, 1921
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African Americans and Whites fleeing stockyard area during the Chicago race riot, 1919