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American race riots occur frequently in the 20th century until about 1922, and then don't show up again until the Detroit Riot of 1943. Why does the US appear to have gone through the Great Depression without any of the large scale racial violence that characterized it before and after?

by /u/Basilikon in /r/AskHistorians

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