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THE SLOCUM MASSACRE — 1910

On July 29, 1910, a devastating episode of racial violence unfolded near Slocum, Texas, targeting the area’s Black community.

Official records listed eight Black people as victims, but that number has long been questioned. Historical accounts indicate that the true number of people killed may have been far higher, making it difficult to establish an exact death toll more than a century later.

Black families fled the area, and the community was permanently changed.

Eleven white men were arrested, and seven were indicted—but the cases were ultimately not prosecuted.

That matters.

Because when violence happens and the official record does not tell the whole story, the absence of an accurate number does not mean the victims did not exist.

It means there may be stories that were never fully documented.

The Slocum Massacre deserves to be remembered—not reduced to a number on a page.

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THE PEGGY — 1765–1766

During the Atlantic voyage of the ship Peggy in 1765–1766, the crew became stranded after severe conditions left them without adequate food.

Historical accounts state that an enslaved African man aboard the ship was selected, killed, and consumed by members of the starving crew.

The account is associated with Captain David Harrison and was reported in contemporary newspapers.

Historians have examined the account and debated some details.

The man’s name was not preserved in the surviving account.

1765–1766 | The Atlantic Ocean

A documented historical account that raises difficult questions about the treatment of enslaved people during the era of the Atlantic slave trade.

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THE ELAINE MASSACRE — 1919

In September 1919, Black sharecroppers near Elaine, Arkansas, were organizing to demand fairer payment for their cotton crops.

After a confrontation turned deadly, violence spread through the surrounding area. Armed white posses and federal troops entered the region, and numerous Black residents were killed.

The exact death toll remains disputed, with historical estimates ranging from dozens to more than 200 Black people.

But the story didn’t end there.

Black attorney Scipio Jones fought for Black defendants who were convicted after the violence. His legal battle eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

In Moore v. Dempsey (1923), the Supreme Court ruled that the defendants’ trials had violated their constitutional right to due process.

A massacre.

A fight for justice.

And a Supreme Court decision that became an important moment in American civil-rights history.

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Before the White House stood here, there was a history.

Indigenous peoples lived throughout the region long before Washington, D.C., or the United States existed. European colonization brought the dispossession and displacement of Indigenous communities.

Centuries later, as the nation’s capital was being built, enslaved African Americans were among the workers who helped construct the President’s House—what we know today as the White House.

So when you look at the White House, remember that its story did not begin with the building.

It begins with the people who were here before it…

and the enslaved people whose labor helped build it.

This is American history.

How much of this history were you actually taught?

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They were told they were receiving medical care. They were actually being studied and used as experiments for evil mad scientists.

In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service began what became known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in Macon County, Alabama.

The study involved 600 Black men—399 who had syphilis and 201 who did not. The men were not properly informed about the study, and even after penicillin became the accepted treatment, the men in the study were not provided adequate treatment through the study.

The study continued for 40 years, until it was exposed and ended in 1972.

This wasn’t just a chapter in medical history.

It became a painful lesson about informed consent, medical ethics, and the importance of protecting human life.

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