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David Krugler

David Krugler is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin—Platteville and the author of 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014)

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America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching

In 1919, in the wake of World War I, black sharecroppers unionized in Arkansas, unleashing a wave of white vigilantism and mass murder that left 237 people dead.

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