Claim(permalink)
Theodore Roosevelt closed the post office in Indianola, Mississippi, in 1903 and rerouted local mail after townspeople forced local postmaster Minnie Cox out because she was black.
✓snopescom rating: mostly credible; published on 2019-01-04
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veracity
mostly credible
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left political leaning
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neutral sentiment
Date published
2019-01-04
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