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#otd 1919 after a Black teacher exposed a local lynching — “a crowd of almost 1,000 whites began to gather back in town with some breaking into Welch’s Hardware Store to take #guns and ammunition. The crowd burned down Jones’s home, Dr. Davis’s home and office, and a black dance hall” #history https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/longview-race-riot-1919/