The First Lady and a “Dangerous Negro”
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The Editors
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December 12th, 2008
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Historical Media Gallery
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The Story Behind the Photo:
In 1940s American society, there was an unwritten rule that a black man could be lynched for transgressing certain social boundaries with white women, including touching a white woman or looking one in the face. But in the 1943 photograph shown above, civil rights activist and labor leader A. Philip Randolph [...]
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