Day in the History of Racial Injustice

January 14, 1931 ~ Black residents of Maryville, Missouri, fled the city after a white mob chained a Black man, Raymond Gunn, accused of killing a white teacher to the top of the schoolhouse and burned it down, killing the man without a trial.

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