East St. Louis riots of 1917

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The East St. Louis riots of 1917 were a series of brutal, racially motivated attacks in Illinois in which white mobs killed and terrorized Black residents, destroying homes and businesses in one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence in early 20th-century America.

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