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The oldest son of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, Yakov Dzhugashvili's life was marked with tragedy, ultimately culminating in his gruesome death in a German concentration camp. In 1907, Joseph Stalin wasn’t known as the leader of the Soviet Union. In fact, he wasn’t known as Joseph Stalin at all. He was a Marxist robber from a poor family, a would-be priest had he not rebelled and become an atheist. His name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili That year, Dzhugashvili robbed a bank in Tiflis, stealing about $3.4 million for the Bolshevik cause and securing his place among Vladimir Lenin’s most coveted followers. That same year, Dzhugashvili’s wife, Yekaterina Svanidze, gave birth to his first son, Yakov Dzhugashvili. However, there was no time for the family to celebrate. Tzarist police were hunting Dzhugashvili, and the family was forced to flee to Baku in Azerbaijan. Along the way, Iosif’s wife fell ill with typhus, and only nine months after their son’s birth, she passed away a...

 Mary Turner, a twenty year-old black woman from Georgia, just watched in horror as her husband been killed in a lynching rampage.  Mary made the mistake of publicly objecting to the angry crowd of whites responsible for her husband's murder. Her voice alone enraged the local men and they came after her.  Mary fled for her life, and for the life of her unborn child.  Mary Turner was roughly eight months pregnant at the time of her husbands murder. For many African Americans growing up in the South in the 19th and 20th centuries, the threat of lynching was commonplace. The "popular" image of an angry white mob stringing a black man up to a tree is only half the story. Lynching...an act of terror meant to spread fear among blacks...served the broad social purpose of maintaining white supremacy in the economic, social and political spheres.  Most victims of lynching were political activists, labor organizers or black men and women who violated white expectations of...