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N. 13th St. and Nectar Ave.

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East St. Louis, Illinois

· Remembering the 1917 East St. Louis Race Riot

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A dozen houses were destroyed here. It was two miles from the massacre's core and is the farthest point north that the violence spread.

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East St. Louis, Illinois · United States

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