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>some random shopkeeper dies in a mysterious shooting in a small Mississippi town and his shop looted and robbed >the local cops naturally only focus on the idea that a black perpetrator or perpetrators did it >they arrest and detain several suspects without charges >but eventually focus their attention on two guys named Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels, apparently because Townes had an unusually large amount of money on him for a black man >he escaped jail and was tracked down in Memphis, Tennessee where he was turned over to the Mississippi authorities after alledgedly confessing to the murder and robbery of the shopkeeper >McDaniels was apparently arrested with no given reason in particular >before anything else could happen, a mob arrived and seized the pair without warning >they were chained to a tree and tortured with blowtorches into confessing to the crime >McDaniels was shot dead and Townes set on fire and burned alive >a third black man named Shorty Dorrah was allegedly implicated by the two, after which the mob beat him and told him to leave Mississippi and never come back >one newspaper declared that the torture-deaths of Townes and McDaniels were entirely justified and no court in the state would convict the perpetrators >after photos of the lynchings made the national media, they provoked condemnation in and out of the US--even Nazi Germany publicized them as an example of American barbarism >an attempt by Congress to pass a Federal anti-lynching bill afterward was foiled when Southern Congressmen voted it down
If all the wishy washy explanations from economist didn't satisfy you, come to the light.
Energy resources are the main driver of economic activity in modern civilization, and in the early 20th coal was the main energy used for both domestic and international trade, as well as heavy industry. Coal production peaked years before the great depression. In the following decade, modern civilizations switched to oil as the main energy resource, which is why the crisis ended.
>Interviewed by Look Magazine after his acquittal for Till's murder, Milam said the following: "Well, what else could we do? He was hopeless. I'm no bully; I never hurt a nigger in my life. I like niggers--in their place--I know how to work 'em. But I just decided it was time a few people got put on notice. As long as I live and can do anything about it, niggers are gonna stay in their place. Niggers ain't gonna vote where I live. If they did, they'd control the government. They ain't gonna go to school with my kids. And when a nigger gets close to mentioning sex with a white woman, he's tired o' livin'. I'm likely to kill him. Me and my folks fought for this country and we got some rights. I stood there in that shed and listened to that nigger throw that poison at me, and I just made up my mind. 'Chicago boy,' I said, 'I'm tired of 'em sending your kind down here to stir up trouble. Goddamn you, I'm going to make an example of you, just so everybody can know how me and my folks stand.'"
>Emily Ruete (30 August 1844 – 29 February 1924)[2] was born in Zanzibar as Salama bint Said, also called Sayyida Salme,[3] a Princess of Zanzibar and Oman. She was the youngest of the 36 children of Sayyid Said bin Sultan Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar and Oman. She is the author of Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar.
>While living in Stone Town she became acquainted with her neighbor, a German merchant, Rudolph Heinrich Ruete (born 10 March 1839; died 6 August 1870) and became pregnant by him. In August 1866, after her pregnancy had become obvious, she fled on board the British frigate HMS Highflyer commanded by Captain [Thomas] Malcolm Sabine Pasley R.N. and was given passage on his ship to the British colony of Aden. There she took Christian instruction and was baptised prior to her marriage at Aden on 30 May 1867. Nonetheless, in a later letter to her sister, she avoided eating pork and dreaded attending church, stressing that she remained Muslim in secret.[4] She had given birth to a son, Heinrich, in Aden in December 1866; he died in France en route to Germany in the summer of 1867.[5]
