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Marje Donating Member (15 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-08-10 07:59 PM
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WWI vet gets military honors 56 years after lynching

Isadore Banks was a World War I veteran and prosperous landowner from Marion, Arkansas. He was also black, so in June of 1954, a year before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, somebody chained him to a tree, doused him in gasoline and set him on fire.

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