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(21,677 posts)Famously, when she was in the hospital, his FBN prevented her from getting care - thus assuring her death.
Typical Gestapo tactics - and bad karma if there ever was any.
Archae
(46,356 posts)Anslinger was a racist, who said smoking weed made blacks and Hispanics into vicious rapists.
peppertree
(21,677 posts)He was no doubt a degenerate himself, like his friend Hoover - except Anslinger looks like the kind given to underage girls.
A perfect fit for the Trump administration.
dchill
(38,556 posts)And thus the ideal GOPee bureaucrat.
They want the kind of people the Gestapo wanted.
LeftInTX
(25,595 posts)As head of the Commission of Narcotics.
Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy could have gotten rid of him. He retired in 1962
a kennedy
(29,719 posts)hlthe2b
(102,410 posts)I didn't connect their adoptive last names to the songwriter. An amazing story that reverberates today.
Historic NY
(37,454 posts)mopinko
(70,263 posts)that's what we need to call that crowd on 1/6.
a lynch mob.
very interesting story. thx.
burrowowl
(17,653 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)I am just stunned by that story with so many levels to it
iluvtennis
(19,880 posts)It shows lynchings and burnings of black folks in America. Book is compilation of photos (taken by the "spectators" of the lynchings and burnings. This is a history that lots of white folks want to deny - but, it happened.
https://www.amazon.com/Without-Sanctuary-Lynching-Photography-America/dp/0944092691
These photographs bear witness to . . . an American holocaust." Congressman John Lewis The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 blacks between 1882 and 1950. This is probably a small percentage of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the NAACP in 1909, an organization dedicated to passing federal anti-lynching laws.
Through all this terror and carnage someone-many times a professional photographer-carried a camera and took pictures of the events. These lynching photographs were often made into postcards and sold as souvenirs to the crowds in attendance.
These images are some of photography's most brutal, surviving to this day so that we may now look back on the terrorism unleashed on America's African-American community and perhaps know our history and ourselves better. The almost one hundred images reproduced here are a testament to the camera's ability to make us remember what we often choose to forget.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,572 posts)Her face expressed it all.
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)TheRickles
(2,089 posts)demmiblue
(36,899 posts)It is still on the CBS site:
https://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/20210424124153-the-story-behind-strange-fruit-takes-hollywood/#x