14 agos 1908 anni - Springfield, IL race riot begins and continues for two days. There is widespread violence and two African-Americans are lynched. Order was restored by the Illinois National Guard. The reaction against these events drives the eventual formation of the NAACP. The President seems to have made no public comment on the incident
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14 agos 1908 anni
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~ 116 years ago