Black Ivory Roots’ Podcast

How Five Black Women Challenged the Klan!


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The 1980 Chattanooga shooting, where five Black women were attacked by members of the Ku Klux Klan while standing on a public sidewalk in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This episode explores the racial violence of the attack, the courtroom failures that followed, and the landmark civil lawsuit, Crumsey v. Justice Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which helped establish a legal strategy later used to dismantle violent hate groups across the United States financially.

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Black Ivory Roots’ PodcastBy Black Sistory