He built the instruments by hand. He performed 200 experimental surgeries. He trained elite surgeons. His employer was published in JAMA and Time Magazine. Thomas was classified as a janitor.

Hoover admitted Garvey had not violated any federal law — then recommended prosecuting him for fraud anyway. The evidence? One empty envelope.

Over 1,400 insurance claims were filed. Virtually every Black claim was denied. One white pawn shop owner collected $3,994.57.

She went in for tumor removal. The doctor took her uterus without telling her. 60% of Black women at that hospital were sterilized.

Jackson won 6,941,816 votes and eleven primary contests. The party establishment deployed bureaucratic mechanisms to ensure it never happened again.

He said, “I ain\u2019t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.” They took his passport, his title, and three and a half years of his prime. The Supreme Court overturned his conviction 8-0.

He owned his masters. He owned his publishing. He owned his label. He was building the first Black-controlled music empire. Then he was shot in a motel under circumstances the LAPD closed in two weeks.

The largest mass trial in New York history. Twenty-one Black Panthers. 156 felony counts. The jury saw through all of it in under an hour.

Anslinger told her to stop singing “Strange Fruit.” She refused. He sent an undercover agent to set her up. She died handcuffed to a hospital bed with a $750 fine pinned to her gown.

He was the logistical genius behind the March on Washington. He trained Martin Luther King Jr. in nonviolent resistance. His own movement hid him because he was openly gay.