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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 Terror in DC, Chicago, and Arkansas

No one really knows how many casualties there were, but historians agree it was likely hundreds. Dozens of black people in the area were tried and convicted for crimes that they didn't even commit. "It's more sad that there really hasn't been more like research or anything done to get an official death toll," she says.

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