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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,290 posts) Tue Jun 16, 2020, 02:22 PM Jun 2020

June 15, 1943: Race riot erupts in Beaumont

June 15, 1943: Race riot erupts in Beaumont after a white woman accused a black man of rape. When the woman could not identify the suspect among the blacks held in the city, 2000 white shipyard workers ransacked and burned black neighborhoods https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jcb01

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June 15, 1943: Race riot erupts in Beaumont (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2020 OP

These events MUST be taught in school. Whites must be given no excuse to claim ignorance of histo bobbieinok Jun 2020 #1

I agree. rownesheck Jun 2020 #2

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)

1. These events MUST be taught in school. Whites must be given no excuse to claim ignorance of histo

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Tue Jun 16, 2020, 02:27 PM

Jun 2020

rownesheck

(2,343 posts)

2. I agree.

Reply to bobbieinok (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 16, 2020, 08:23 PM

Jun 2020

I lived in and around Beaumont for the first 39 years of my life, and this is the first I'm hearing of this.

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