
Fred Hampton And The Black Panthers Took Thomas Jefferson At His Word
Thursday, July 4, 2019 || By Michael Romain || OPINION || @maywoodnews
Featured image: Black Panthers on the capitol steps in Olympia, Wa. in 1969. They were protesting gun legislation. | Courtesy Washington State Archives / Via The Trace
In his last public letter — released two weeks before his death on July 4, 1826 — Thomas Jefferson praised the Declaration of Independence, a document he had drafted a half-century earlier, as “an instrument, pregnant with our own and the fate of the world.”
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