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Originally Posted by wufwugy
Yeah it may be a Yankee thing. I was taught next to nothing about prohibition era, and the only historical black figures I remember are MLK, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman
I don't want to get too much into the history, because I'm not if they'll go in this direction-- so no specifics just giving a little scope on what they've touched on on-screen.
Pretty much, if it weren't for J. Edgar Hoover, there's a good chance we would never have known who MLK, Rosa Parks, Malcom X, and the other well known 60's civil rights leaders were-- but in a good way. There was a civil rights movement in it's infancy decades before the 60's, but was drastically set back by Hoover and his view that they were race agitators.
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