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The Draft Riots: Black Mark on Our Histroy
Dakota Scott
Category:
USA Yesterday
Published:
November 2020
"Over the course of three days of rioting, killing, and lynching, 3,000 African-American -- one-quarter of [New York's] free black community -- saw their homes and businesses destroyed."