Rosewood Reparations (1994)
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The Roots of Black Massacres
A lot of the massacres that we've talked about have taken place in the late 19 teens or the 1920s because this really was a period of intensifying anti-black violence. There is no state policing to stop these massacres, to stop them until they get started, that it is literally mob rule. A lot of black people who are losing their homes, they own property, they own land. And so there's an economic incentive to take that land away and make sure that they don't returnso that the land will then be up for grabs.
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