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After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justice of the Peace, and then Mississippi State Representative. He was only 26 when he was elected to the US Congress in 1873. There, he continued to be an activist, introducing many bills and arguing on their behalf. Perhaps his greatest effort was in the long debate supporting the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to ban discrimination in public accommodations. In 1884 Lynch was the first African American nominated after a moving speech by Theodore Roosevelt to the ...

Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by the unwillingness of local, state and federal governments to prosecute those who were responsible, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett wrote Southern Horrors, a pamphlet in which she exposed the horrible reality of lynchings to the rest of the nation and to the world. Wells explained, through case study, how the federal government's failure to intervene allowed Southern states the latitude to slowly but effectively disenfranchise blacks from participating as free men ...

The world will always do two things: 1. It's gonna turn. 2. It's gonna burn (metaphorically and physically,) so why not make the most of it? As The World Turns or Burns is a weekly News & Politics podcast hosted by Career Pathways host and Lyon College's Patrick Lynch, most call him Pat. Every two weeks Pat is joined by two Lyon College professors Dr. Brendan Connell and Dr. Kieran O'Keefe! On the weeks they aren't on, Pat sits down and talks with guests about world affairs that they are involved in and or have a deep understanding of.The show focuses on the world and it's crazy politics and ...