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waddirum

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3. That list is incomplete (which you acknowledge)

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 23, 2018, 01:57 AM

Apr 2018

There were numerous lynchings in the City of Chicago. I only see one in that list from 1929. Chicago had a pretty serious "race riot" (not my term) in 1919. It all started when a group of white kids were throwing stones at black kids to defend some imagined border at the beach.

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Take down Robert E. Lee's statue and put up a memorial to lynching [View all] struggle4progress Apr 2018 OP

How about a memorial to lynching victims in YOUR county? struggle4progress Apr 2018 #1

Thank you for this list. thucythucy Apr 2018 #2

That list is incomplete (which you acknowledge) waddirum Apr 2018 #3