Leonard Pitts Jr.: Getting America to do right by Americans of color
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Apr 03, 2022
2 minutes
Two hundred times, they failed to get it done.
They failed after 1899. That was the year an African-American man named Sam Hose was massacred by a white mob near Newnan, Georgia, that castrated him, skinned his face, then cooked him alive over a fire and parceled out pieces of his body; his knuckles were offered for sale by a grocer in Atlanta.
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