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Zikten
11/02/22 11:58:56 PM
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https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dan-smith-believed-to-have-been-last-living-person-born-to-enslaved-parent-laid-to-rest-in-dc/3194945/

This unfortunately is brief. I read a longer more detailed version from New York Times but this was the best I could find for free

One thing I wanted to add that I don't see in this article, is that in the 50s, this guy tried to do CPR on a white woman in medical trouble. A cop ordered him to stop touching her, and she died while everyone just watched because the black man was the only person there who knew CPR
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Solar_Crimson
11/03/22 12:08:19 AM
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Zikten posted...
One thing I wanted to add that I don't see in this article, is that in the 50s, this guy tried to do CPR on a white woman in medical trouble. A cop ordered him to stop touching her, and she died while everyone just watched because the black man was the only person there who knew CPR
Yet another reason why Jim Crow was illogical.

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Number090684
11/03/22 12:10:38 AM
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Solar_Crimson posted...
Yet another reason why Jim Crow was illogical.

That shitty cop proves that those ignorant racist bigots are so fucking stupid that they'd let anyone and everyone die for their hate.
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cjsdowg
11/05/22 10:16:16 AM
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And there are still people they talk about the Good Old days.

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