How Riot Birthed Revolution
The His and Her Story of the NAACP
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5 min readFeb 12, 2021
Once upon a time, a mob of about 5,000 white men committed a mass of racial violence against African Americans in Springfield, Illinois’. It was the result of Joe James and George Richardson, two black men accused and arrested in the rape and murder of two white women that shut up fire in their bones. In their minds, the two black men shouldn’t have been…
