mar 25, 1929 - Joe Lee Gets Beat

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At the Beginning of 1937, Ida Mae has gone through a living hell, and not saying she was the only one but, she witnessed hell. Ida Mae didn't only get threatened in front of her children but witnessed the beating of her brother-in-law for something he didn't do with no emotions attached. In the novel "The Warmth of Other Suns" Wilkerson states," They beat him with the chains that Willie Jim had raised up to Ida Mae. And when he said he didn't know anything about any turkeys, they paid it no mind. They beat

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