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Corbin race riot

Friday Oct 31, 1919
Corbin, Kentucky, U.S.

Corbin, Kentucky race riot of 1919 was a race riot in 1919 in which a white mob forced nearly all the town's 200 black residents onto a freight train out of town, and a sundown town policy until the late 20th century.


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