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82: Legalized Murder: When The Purge Happened In America—Red Summer of 1919 | Dark History with Bailey Sarian

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The Elaine Massacre

JCPenney is celebrating its birthday this weekend with an in-store coupon giveaway. The Elaine massacre was a hate crime committed by black men against white people. A local sheriff created a militia to hunt down those responsible for the shooting and killed four brothers who were returning home from a trip when a large group of blacks jumped them, shot them to death.

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