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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
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Department of Guainía
Departamento de Guainía | |
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 Flag  Coat of arms | |
 Guainía shown in red | |
 Topography of the department | |
| Coordinates: 3°51′55″N 67°55′26″W / 3.86528°N 67.92389°W | |
| Country |  Colombia |
| Region | Amazon Region |
| Capital | Inírida |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Javier Eliecer Zapata Parrado (2016–2019) |
| Area | |
• Total | 72,238 km2 (27,891 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 5th |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
• Total | 48,114 |
| • Rank | 33rd |
| • Density | 0.66605/km2 (1.7251/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Total | COP 498 billion (US$ 0.1 billion) |
| Time zone | UTC-05 |
| ISO 3166 code | CO-GUA |
| HDI | 0.690[3] medium · 32nd of 33 |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1964 | 3,602 | — |
| 1973 | 6,637 | +84.3% |
| 1985 | 12,345 | +86.0% |
| 1993 | 28,478 | +130.7% |
| 2005 | 35,230 | +23.7% |
| 2018 | 48,114 | +36.6% |
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Guainía (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwajˈni.a]; Yuri language: "Land of many waters") is a department of Eastern Colombia. It is in the east of the country, bordering Venezuela and Brazil. Its capital is Inírida. In 1963 Guainía was split off from Vaupés department. The northern part and the Inírida River are included in the Orinoco basin; the rest is part of the Amazon basin. The Guaviare River is the main area of colonization; many colonos come from the Colombian Andean zone, most of them from Boyacá. They are followed by the llaneros, people from the Eastern plains (Llanos). The population is mainly composed of Amerindians, and the largest ethnic groups are the Puinaves (from the makú-puinave family) and the Curripacos (from the Arawak family). There are a total of 24 ethnic groups in the department; many of them speak four Indigenous languages besides Spanish and Portuguese.
There are two municipalities in Guainía: Inírida, its capital, and Barranco Minas. The rest of the territory is subdivided in corregimientos departamentales, a pending figure due to public disorder[clarification needed].[5] This case happens only in Amazonas, Vaupés and Vichada. Barranco Minas is the second biggest population and a municipality since 2019;[6] it is located on the Guaviare River.
The Guainía corregimientos are:
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Puinave, also known as Waipunavi (Guaipunabi) or Wanse (Wã́nsöjöt [ˈw̃ã́nsɤhɤt]; Puinave: Wãnsöhöt) is an indigenous language of Colombia and Venezuela. It is generally considered to be a language isolate.
The Nukak language, or pejoratively Nukak Makú, is the language of the Nukak people. Other than being very closely related to Kakwa, it is of uncertain classification, perhaps part of the Puinave-Maku family.
Puinave–Makú is a proposed language family linking the Puinave and Nukak-Kakwa languages to the Nadahup family. Paul Rivet (1920) and other researchers proposed decades ago the hypothesis of a Puinave-Makú family. Later, Joseph Greenberg (1987) grouped the Puinave-Makú languages, together with the Tucano family, the Katukinan, Waorani and Ticuna languages in the Macro-Tukano trunk. Puinave-Maku and the language isolate Máku (of Auari) are sometimes connected to the Arutani–Sape languages (yet again also known as Maku) in a Kalianan branch, a connection which Kaufman (1990) finds "promising", but there is too little data on these languages to know for sure. Hodï has been proposed specifically as a sister of Puinave–Maku as well. Kaufman (1994: 60, 2007: 67–68) also adds Katukinan to the family.
Guainía (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwajˈni.a]; Yuri language: "Land of many waters") is a department of Eastern Colombia. It is in the east of the country, bordering Venezuela and Brazil. Its capital is Inírida. In 1963 Guainía was split off from Vaupés department. The northern part and the Inírida River are included in the Orinoco basin; the rest is part of the Amazon basin. The Guaviare River is the main area of colonization; many colonos come from the Colombian Andean zone, most of them from Boyacá. They are followed by the llaneros, people from the Eastern plains (Llanos). The population is mainly composed of Amerindians, and the largest ethnic groups are the Puinaves (from the makú-puinave family) and the Curripacos (from the Arawak family). There are a total of 24 ethnic groups in the department; many of them speak four Indigenous languages besides Spanish and Portuguese.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
