A 17-Year-old South Los Angeles Student, Lamont Newell has received 65 college acceptance letters and plans to attend Columbia University to study industrial engineering. The valedictorian with a 4.4. GPA earned a full ride.๐๐พ๐จ๐พโ๐๐ฅ๐ซ
On this day in 1944, George Stinney, 14, became the youngest person executed in the US in the 20th century. He was so small they had to stack books on the electric chair.
Due to no evidence, his conviction was posthumously vacated 70 years after his execution!
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"Don't tell me there are some good white people. Racism wouldn't have lasted that long had there been good white people. 500 years? There must've not been that many."-Professor Ronald J. Henry