This is American history, whether some people like it or not, tell the full story and this country moves forward with justice for all! Move from the shadows of denial, acknowledge these atrocities, as the truth will set this country free!
A mob in Kentucky took a Black man to the town's OPERA HOUSE, tied him to a post on the stage, and SOLD TICKETS.
Orchestra seats could empty a revolver. Gallery seats got one shot.
Will Potter. Livermore, Kentucky, 1911.
The New York Times reported it. The house was filled. Around fifty men fired.
Eighteen men were indicted afterward, which was rare. Every one of them was acquitted, which was not.
Somebody priced those seats. Somebody decided the gallery only gets one shot.
That is not a mob losing control. That is an event with a business model
That is the kind of buried history that inspired our book documenting crimes against black people