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To: steppenwolffe
Indiana Holocaust Museum

I'm pretty good with history....but I don't seem to recall an "Indiana Holocaust."

64 posted on 11/18/2003 2:38:22 PM PST by Onelifetogive
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To: Onelifetogive
I'm pretty good with history....but I don't seem to recall an "Indiana Holocaust."

You may be pretty good with history, but your ability in English is not up to the same par.

66 posted on 11/18/2003 2:40:16 PM PST by Poohbah ("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Major Vic Deakins, USAF)
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To: Onelifetogive
"I'm pretty good with history....but I don't seem to recall an "Indiana Holocaust.""

Hmm....not too good with reading for content, though, it seems.
67 posted on 11/18/2003 2:46:50 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: Onelifetogive
Indiana Holocaust Museum

I'm pretty good with history....but I don't seem to recall an "Indiana Holocaust."

There was a pretty noticible race riot in Evansville in 1903, and D.C. Stevenson's Klan of the early 1920s was as much anti-Jewish and Anti-Catholic [by way of being anti-immigrant] as they were concerned with replays of the Negro riots of '03. And the unremarkable lynchings of the usual blacks in Southern Indiana [the Holly Epps hanging at Vincennes was somewhat more spectacular, in which much of the community of Bloomfield chartered a train to the locatrion where Epps was being held on rape and ax-murder charges, marched as a unit from the train station to the County jail and courthouse, removed the prisoner from his cell and hanged him from a courthouse tree, still standing.

There was a similar lynching in nearby Monroe county many years later, of a Jewish rapist that was compared to the Epps incident, not looked upon kindly by the area's Chamber of Commerce. Around 1921, as I recall.

-archy-/-

68 posted on 11/18/2003 2:47:45 PM PST by archy (Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
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