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- 1Civil Rights Leaders' 1940s UN Appeal Recast in Light of Gaza▼Seventy-Five Years Ago, Civil Rights Leaders Appealed to the UN for Help in Fighting a Black Genocide in the US. They Were Ignored. Gaza is the Inevitable Result
The Kansas City Defender argues that 75 years ago civil rights leaders petitioned the United Nations to address what they described as a genocide against Black Americans, and were ignored. The publication claims that unchecked impunity over that episode connects historically to the current war in Gaza, calling the situation there the inevitable result of that earlier inaction.