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US Army unit honours Black soldier lynched 80 years ago
« on: August 04, 2021, 01:02:26 PM »
US Army unit honours Black soldier lynched 80 years ago

A United States Army post, Fort Benning, has honoured a Black soldier who was lynched in 1941. Private Felix Hall, a 19-year-old man from rural Alabama, had said goodbye to two colleagues after working a shift at the sawmill at Fort Benning, but he didn’t reach the post exchange where he was headed. He had…


 
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