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		Whoppertime 36 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah It wasn't just black people being lynched. The largest single mass lynching in American history was of Italians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_New_Orleans_lynchings

sporkxrocket 36 days ago [–]

Louisiana has a dark history.

> An estimated 62–153 black men were murdered while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_massacre

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