From the web: “In 1919, the state failed to protect black Americans. A century later, it’s still failing”

June 2, 2020 Uncategorized

n 1919, as soldiers returned from the first world war, many white Americans saw African American men in military uniforms for the first time. That sight, and the challenge it posed to the political, social, and economic order, was deeply threatening to them.

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