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| 6066335 | In 2001, the Associated Press published a three-part investigation into the theft of black-owned land stretching back to the antebellum period. The series documented some 406 victims and 24,000 acres of land values at tends of millions of dollars. The land was taken through means ranging from legal chicanery to terrorism. | american-history black-history institutional-oppression institutionalized-racism kleptocracy land-ownership slave-economy us-history | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| a3a82d5 | In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy. | black-history jim-crow jim-crow-laws kleptocracy mississippi mississippi-history segregation us-history | Ta-Nehisi Coates |