Day in the History of Racial Injustice

February 17, 1947 ~ In Greenville, South Carolina, a mob of white men lynched Willie Earle, a 24-year-old black man. The mob slashed chunks of flesh from his body before blasting him with a shotgun; the 31 men charged were all acquitted.

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