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Negrophobia Part 2: The GOP Strategist’s return to Jim Crow election tactics Continue reading on Examiner.com Negrophobia Part 2: The GOP Strategist’s return to Jim Crow election tactics

Posted by Curmilus Dancy II (Butch) on October 16, 2011

When it comes to winning elections by "any means necessary", Republican talking point creators / manufacturers are as fearless and as shrewd (some say evil) a political competitor as a hybrid android that’s half Bobby Fischer and half Genghis Khan.(Read more)

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Black Harvard doctor pens memoir of Jim Crow South–Source: Black Politics On The Web

Posted by Curmilus Dancy II (Butch) on December 27, 2010

Growing up in segregated Memphis, Tenn., during the Jim Crow era, Augustus White III knew about those certain places off-limits to him as a black man — restrooms, diners and schools.

He just didn’t pay racial barriers much mind.

The son of a doctor and teacher became the first African-American to graduate from Stanford Medical School, the first African-American resident and surgery professor at Yale and later the first black department head at Harvard’s teaching hospitals. (Read more)

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