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Anon-C

(3,440 posts) Thu Sep 20, 2018, 10:07 AM Sep 2018

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NPR - Documenting The History Of Mob Violence Against African-American Veterans

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/649797847/documenting-the-history-of-mob-violence-against-african-american-veterans

A large number of African-American military veterans were murdered by lynching after returning from war. An annual re-enactment of a lynching in Alabama tells one such story.

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NPR - Documenting The History Of Mob Violence Against African-American Veterans (Original Post) Anon-C Sep 2018 OP

That's horrible. DashOneBravo Sep 2018 #1

DashOneBravo

(2,679 posts)

1. That's horrible.

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Sat Sep 22, 2018, 11:17 AM

Sep 2018

James Meredith was an Air Force vet.

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