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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/10/2021
Fact Check: History of Robert Moses's Parkways Shows Racist Intent of Bridge Height is Not Certain
Pete Buttigieg's remarks racism in urban planning were informed by Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses. Some historians say that while Moses's projects harmed minority communities and his prejudices well-known, the specific anedcote about using parkway bridges to keep buses full of Black New Yorkers from Long Island beaches may be apocryphal.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/22/2021
Ed Markey’s Ahistorical Attack on the Filibuster?
According to the Post's Fact Check, Sen. Markey earns "Three Pinocchios" because, even though the filibuster became a prominent legislative tactic through the efforts of pro-slavery John C. Calhoun (and was prominently used by his ideological successors in th Jim Crow South), the South Carolina Senator didn't actually invent it. Three Pinocchios.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/5/2020
Trump’s Claim that He’s Done More for Black Americans than any President Since Lincoln (Fact Check)
Historians Michael Beschloss, David Garrow, H.W. Brands, Max J. Skidmore and David Greenberg argue that LBJ is in fact second to Lincoln in this regard.
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SOURCE: Snopes
4/27/2020
Does an 1866 Court Case Bar States from Enforcing Social-Distancing Regulations?
States may in fact use police powers to protect the health, safety, and welfare of persons within their borders.
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SOURCE: PolitiFact
1/14/20
Fact check: After Pearl Harbor, Japanese didn't invade US because they feared armed citizens?
Four experts told us there is no evidence that Japan ever seriously considered such an invasion and that military limitations, not Americans armed with hunting weapons, were the reasons why.
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