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[https://eji.org/news/new-study-shows-impact-of-lynching-history-on-life-expectancy-today/ by EJI 10/05/21] | [https://eji.org/news/new-study-shows-impact-of-lynching-history-on-life-expectancy-today/ by EJI 10/05/21] | ||
A new study from researchers at the University of South Florida found that counties in the South with the highest number of racial terror lynchings have the lowest life expectancy. Conversely, counties with no recorded history of lynchings have the highest life expectancy rate. | A new study from researchers at the University of South Florida found that counties in the South with the highest number of racial terror lynchings have the lowest life expectancy. Conversely, counties with no recorded history of lynchings have the highest life expectancy rate. | ||
=====Those Who Don't Learn from History are Destined to Repeat It===== | |||
[https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/those-who-dont-learn-history-are-destined-repeat-it by Kenneth W. Chandler 28/6/11 ACLU] | |||
June 25 marked the 70th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt's, Executive Order 8802, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion and national origin in federal defense contracts. It is important to understand both the historical implications of this executive order and how it was reversed by President George W. Bush's "Faith-Based" executive order more than 60 years later. | |||
