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Black McCains, the Glossary

The family known in the media as the "black McCains" are the living descendants of Isom McCain (1831 – between 1888 and 1890) and Leddie McCain, African-American people enslaved in Teoc, Mississippi, by William Alexander McCain, a cotton plantation owner who was the great-great-grandfather of Senator John McCain.^[1]

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Carrollton, Mississippi

Carrollton is a town in and the second county seat of Carroll County, Mississippi, United States, which is within the Mississippi Delta.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Faith of My Fathers

Faith of My Fathers is a 1999 bestselling non-fiction book by United States Senator John McCain with Mark Salter.

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Greenwood, Mississippi

Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta region, approximately 96 miles north of the state capital, Jackson, and 130 miles south of the riverport of Memphis, Tennessee.

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Joe McCain

Joseph Pinckney McCain II (born April 26, 1942) is an American stage actor, newspaper reporter, and the brother of the late U.S. Senator and two-time presidential candidate John McCain. Black McCains and Joe McCain are McCain family.

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John McCain

John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. Black McCains and John McCain are McCain family.

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John McCain 2000 presidential campaign

The 2000 presidential campaign of John McCain, the United States Senator from Arizona, began in September 1999.

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John McCain 2008 presidential campaign

The 2008 presidential campaign of John McCain, the longtime senior U.S. Senator from Arizona, was launched with an informal announcement on February 28, 2007, during a live taping of the Late Show with David Letterman, and formally launched at an event on April 25, 2007.

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John S. McCain Jr.

John Sidney "Jack" McCain Jr. (January 17, 1911 – March 22, 1981) was a United States Navy admiral who served in conflicts from the 1940s through the 1970s, including as the Commander, United States Pacific Command. Black McCains and John S. McCain Jr. are McCain family.

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John S. McCain Sr.

John Sidney "Slew" McCain Sr. (9 August 1884 – 6 September 1945) was a United States Navy admiral and the patriarch of the McCain military family. Black McCains and John S. McCain Sr. are McCain family.

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Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups.

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Meet the Press

Meet the Press is a weekly American television Sunday morning talk show broadcast on NBC.

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Mississippi John Hurt

John Smith Hurt (March 8, 1893 – November 2, 1966), known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Salon.com

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.

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Sharecropping is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.

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Slavery in the United States

The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South.

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Stokely Carmichael

Kwame Ture (born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941November 15, 1998) was an American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement. Black McCains and Stokely Carmichael are activists for African-American civil rights and American civil rights activists.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_McCains