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Will Brown, a meatpacking industry worker, was lynched in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1919 for allegedly raping a white woman. The riot of white men leading to his lynching was a response to the new competition for jobs posed by black workers for the first time. Omaha's was just one of many murderous riots that took place during the "Red Summer of 1919" in some three dozen cities around the country. The photo of this spectacle lynching is one of the most famous.

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