Rare Photos of the East St.Louis Race Riots of 1917

[cole phelps]

My history teacher in high school once said "the more things change...The more things stay the same".

The only thing that's changed is that the pictures of injustice are in color now.

true and its a damn shame hopefully things will change in the next few decades

 

[cole phelps]

 

[BenArfa]

Wasn't this because the boxer Jack Johnson beat up that cac?