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Sunday, December 29, 2013

The Omaha Race Riot

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Will Brown lynched, mutilated and burned by a white crowd. The Omaha Race Riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, on September 28–29, 1919. The race riot resulted in the brutal lynching of Will Brown, a black worker; ... It followed more than 20 race riots that occurred in major industrial cities of the United States during the Red Summer of 1919.


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