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The loss of 10,000 black homes and the destruction of the wealthiest black community in the United States, and it never even came up in my public school education.
Maybe the curriculum did not allow time for every single episode in American history to be covered. Ever hear of the white man who was lynched by a white mob in Washington County, Misssissippi in 1877 after he boasted in public about murdering a black man? Ever hear of the Italian immigrants lynched in New Orleans in 1891? Ever hear of the Great Molasses Flood? Study a lot about the Seminole Wars? Or maybe your school just sucked.
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