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Buffalo Soldiers | The Brass Letters | 1
Lindsey Graham
In May 1866, a group of soldiers in Memphis who had recently mustered out of the USCT got into an argument with white police officers. Crowds gathered on the scene, and the argument escalated into gunfire that ignited violence across the city. After three days, 46 black people and two white people had been killed, and five black women had been raped.
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