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

Dark History

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The Unseen Horror of the Jim Crow South

Cops let the wrongly imprisoned black Americans face a judge who would sentence them to death for no reason. Some were tortured into giving fake testimonies or turn on their friends and get themselves killed. After three days of terror, at least 100 black people were killed, with the actual number believed to be much higher. Dozens of black people were also convicted for crimes they didn't even commit just for being black.

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