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S. 8th St. and Brady Ave.

East St. Louis, Illinois
· Remembering the 1917 East St. Louis Race Riot
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White rioters burned homes here, and armed men stood along the railroad tracks nearby and gunned down African Americans fleeing their burning homes.
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