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Blurring the Color Line | The 1970 Augusta Riot
In 1970, the Georgia city of Augusta erupted into a riot that became the largest uprising of Black Americans in the South. Sixteen-year-old Black teenager, Charles Oatman, was arrested and then died in a county jail; his brutal death turned a protest into a riot that led to the killings of six Black men by white police officers...this piece of American history has been largely forgotten.
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