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Dr. Umar Johnson Talks Deion Sanders, TJ Holmes, Interracial Relationships + The Snow Bunny Crisis

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Jerry Jones and the Little Rock Ten Bombing

Jerry Jones was part of a mob to deny African Americans entry into North Little Rock High School on September 9th, 1957. He says neither he nor any of the other white boys or people there knew what they were going to get into. That's lie number one. Jerry Jones had already admitted that his coach told him not to go nowhere near that there would be trouble there. The Supreme Court just outlawed school desegregation three years earlier on May 17th, 1954. If Jerry Jones gets a pass because he's 14, why didn't Emmett Till get a pass? Tommy Rice, Ohio, he was 12 with his pass at what about the brother and Gulfport, Mississippi?

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