AskHistorians

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What were national disaster relief efforts like in the Jim Crow South? A hurricane rips through a Black neighborhood. What does search-and-rescue or first aid look lie?	77
How did Black Islam/Judaism (Nation of Islam, Moorish Science, Black Israelites) become an amalgamation of Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Turkic, Egyptian iconography and Black nationalism? Why do they believe that Black Americans are descendants of both ancient Egyptians and the tribes of Israel?	74
During the Jim Crow era, what would typically happen if a white person assaulted or murdered a black person in broad daylight? Would they have likely been convicted, or would people have turned a blind-eye?	73
Did the civil rights activists who were jailed later get their record expunged or pardoned?	72
A few of my family members who are black Americans are named “Robert Lee”, was naming your child after a Confederate general common in the black community?	72
What was international travel like for Black Americans during Jim Crow? Let's say I am a Black person from the Deep South who saved up enough to go to Europe in the 1950s, would anything bar me from leaving? What about if I were from the North?	70
During the Atlantic Slave Trade, did West African tribes ever try to reverse engineer the guns they received from the Europeans?	70
When do historians get a clear separation/distinction between Jews and Christians?	70
Southern Slaveowners often used the Bible to justify their actions. Did any clergyman/pastors/scholars try to refute the passages and verses slaveowners often would quote?	69
During WW2 the Americans liked to take German Lugers. What did the Germans and Russians like to take from each other?	68

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