re: On this day in history: The wealthiest black community in the US was destroyed

I learned about this event a few years ago. The whole thing, from start to finish was unbelievable. And, it was like 60 years after the Civil War.

And yes. There is A LOT of history like that that we do not know anything about. The way that black people were treated in America pre-1970 was overall rather barbaric.

Read Slavery By Another Name by Douglas Blackmon. Basically says that the steel industry in and around Birmingham was built by what was essentially slave labor between 1880-1940. Lots of injustice there.

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