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September 22nd

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  1. 1906
    The Record

    Atlanta race massacre

    After Atlanta newspapers run fabricated reports of assaults by Black men, white mobs rampage through Atlanta for four days, killing at least twenty-five Black residents and destroying Black businesses across Decatur Street. W.E.B. Du Bois, teaching at Atlanta University, writes A Litany at Atlanta in response.

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