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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I'd never heard of this. Thanks for posting...

REEEEEEEALLY UGLY and not over yet: In October 2016, the sign marking the site where Till's body was found was shot at by unknown persons, leaving it riddled with more than 40 bullet holes... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till In 1920 things were not much better in Duluth, Minnesota https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Duluth_lynchingsTalk about not 'Minnesota Nice'! Even WWII England did not escape the issue : http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/07/us/when-black-soldiers-were-hanged-a-war-s-footnote.html

Black soldiers paid for capital crimes disproportionately at the gallows in the segregated military of that time. 55 Blacks Executed. Only blacks were executed for rape in England during World War II, [7] and only blacks—six men—were hanged for rape by MacArthur in New Guinea at the end of the Pacific war. [8] http://apjjf.org/-Terese-Svoboda/2737/article.html The rate of execution for black soldiers was even higher for the rape of civilians, for which 25 blacks (87 percent) and 4 whites (13 percent) were put to death. In 28 murder convictions, 22 blacks and 6 whites were executed. Of the 12 executed for murder and rape, 8 were black and 4 were white. Albert Pierrepoint served as the assistant executioner, in seven executions of American soldiers. The United States Army Center of Military History in Washington says very little information is available on the subject. How convenient? But one historian there, Russell J. Parkinson, was able to confirm the basic data that Mr. Lilly is using. "There's clearly a black preponderance," Mr. Parkinson said, after reviewing the execution records and finding Mr. Lilly's quest a worthy avenue for scholarship. Professor Lilly said the executions of blacks for the rape of English civilians strongly support his suspicions of a Jim Crow sort of racism in American military justice in World War II. For less serious, less interracially explosive offenses, like barracks dishonesty and drunkenness, Mr. Lilly found the races represented proportionally. White soldiers were charged 9 times out of 10.
But sex offenses registered differently, even apart from outright rape. Black soldiers made up more than 40 percent of the total accused of sex crimes, and they were convicted in two-thirds of the cases; white soldiers were convicted at a 40 percent rate.