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If Sandra Bland were alive today, she would be 38 years old. This July 13 will mark the 10th anniversary of her lynching in a Waller County, Texas, jail following her arrest on July 10 for an alleged minor traffic violation. The white state trooper who arrested her was only charged with perjury. Her unjust arrest and death sparked protests all over the country, and still to this day, activists demand justice for her, similar to other victims of police terror.
Monica Moorehead, a Workers World managing editor, stated in 2019: “The murder of Sandra Bland was the lightning rod for the hashtag #SayHerName as a component within the Black Lives Matter movement. It was a grim but important reminder that her case shined a bright light on how Black women and all women of color are victims of police terror, but many still don’t get the national and international attention that Bland’s case did.” (workers.org/2019/02/41109)
The following article first appeared online on July 23, 2015, and can be found at workers.org/2015/07/21114. The article was lightly edited.
Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old African American woman, drove from her home in a Chicago suburb to Prairie View A&M (PVAM) University, her alma mater in rural southeast Texas, to begin a new job as a student ambassador to the alumni association. She called it her dream job.
Bland was found hanging with a trash bag around her neck in a Waller County Jail cell in Hempstead, Texas, on July 13. READ MORE…
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