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In 1916, they hung an elephant in Erwin, Tennessee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin,_Tennessee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin,_Tennessee
by bacon_waffle 6y ago
In 1916, they hung an elephant in Erwin, Tennessee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin,_Tennessee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin,_Tennessee
- lvturner 6y ago"Erwin has a dark chapter in its history. A group of its white citizens committed an extra-legal “banishment," a violent incident that took place in 1918 and involved the murder of a black man and the violent, forcible eviction of all other black citizens from the town by a white mob." Why does the fact that a traveling circus visiting Erwin once executed an Elephant, get more page space than this throw away sentence at the bottom of the introduction?
- pwdisswordfish0 6y agoBecause the elephant thing is unique and the racism thing is common?