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Willie Raney 1890 - 1977

Willie Raney of Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky was born on May 18, 1890, and died at age 87 years old in December 1977.

Willie Raney

Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky 41101

May 18, 1890

December 1977

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May 18, 1890

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December 1977

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In 1890, in the year that Willie Raney was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.

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In 1909, he was 19 years old when the NAACP was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois. The organization focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day - which included lynching and segregation in schools. The goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution.

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