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Jason Jeffries
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the entire community gathered in the main synagogue to pray. The Franj barricaded all the exits and stacked all the bundles of wood they could find in a ring around the building. The temple was then put to the torch. Those who managed to
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“Inexplicably to many whites, blacks continued to express dissatisfaction.”
― This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
― This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
“Black farmers like Henry Shepherd and his family threatened, “by their example, the whole system of servitude and forced labor which is the base of the local economy,” McCarthy wrote.”
― Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
― Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
“Tuition in the 1920s was $17 a semester;”
― LBJ: Architect of American Ambition
― LBJ: Architect of American Ambition
“no approximately correct history of civilization can ever be written which does not throw out in bold relief, as one of the great landmarks of political and social progress, the organization and administration of the Freedmen's Bureau.”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
“Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words – even provocative or repugnant ones – are not violence. The answer to speech we do not like is more speech.”
― The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
― The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
Jason’s 2025 Year in Books
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