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Mar 2024
33m 12s

The Vigilantes, Episode 1

SHARON MCMAHON
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A shocking murder. A scene so brutal that the first people to find the victim couldn’t even tell what their skin color was. And a case that forever changed both the city, and the state’s legal system.  It was April 1913, in Atlanta, Georgia, and the city would never be the same. You may wonder why this imperative and dramatic case is not taught in history cl ... Show More
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