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Why Did So Many Black Women Die? Jonestown at 35

…-suicides in world history, 918 people from her Peoples Temple church lay dead before her eyes, poisoned by a lethal cocktail of cyanide and fruit punch. The images from this gothic scene of carnage have become indelible: bodies, clad in simple workaday clothing, stretch into the distance in rows, face down on the ground. Seldom discussed and less widely known, however, is the fact that they are overwhelmingly black bodies. Rendered “anonymous,” t…

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The People’s Temple, the Black Church, and the Tragic Legacy of Jonestown

…in the Bay Area weren’t meeting. The People’s Temple not only fills the breach created by the decline of the black church—as far as it being a movement organizer in social justice and a provider of social welfare—but also the breach caused by the decline of the Black Power movement and Civil Rights movement. There was also the family dynamic that the People’s Temple fostered where there would be several generations of a family connected to the Te…

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