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Josephine Baker

You're Dead to Me

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'Say, You Don't Lie'

In july, a white guy comes into the east saint louis area and fires shots an americans. This is the lem in response, justim looking for anybody black, cause you might have a wallet. The national guard are brought in. Tensions subside. Eventually the national guard is removed in june. And so you have in the city just this kind of height of kind of racial animus. It sets off three days of violence where basically whites go into the eastSaintLouis neighborhoods,. They burn everything to the ground, almost, and then fire gunshots at african ans as their leaving their homes. Estimated that 39 af African Americans lose their lives, nine whites

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