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The History of American Police and the Ku Klux Klan

Behind the Bastards

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You Don't Want to Do Business With Us, Okay?

During the red summer of 19 19, white people initiated more or less a hundred percent of the violence against black people. Law enforcement consistently failed to protect them. The individual racism of white officers mixed with the simple reality that police had never been intended to protect poor neighborhoods in an organized fashion left black people with no option but to protect themselves. Many of these defenders were veterans among the 370 thousand black men inducted into the army during world war One who hoped fighting for democracy abroad might finally secure their ist class citizenship at home made a mistake when he joined chicago's allieth infantry regiment. As he explained i had been fighting the wrong enemy right here at home. It is the muddle

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