Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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    1 year ago

    “A N***** WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT. AMERICA HAS LOST ITS WAYS TO INSANITY”

    “F*****S PARADE AROUND THE CITY AND THEY WERENT SHOT AT FIRST SIGHT”

    “PATRIOT ARRESTED FOR BURNING CROSSES”

    “PEOPLE CLAIMING STATE AND CHURCH SHOULD BE SEPARATED ARE NOT FIT FOR OFFICE, THEY ARE COMMUNIST TRAITORS”

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      “PEOPLE CLAIMING STATE AND CHURCH SHOULD BE SEPARATED ARE NOT FIT FOR OFFICE, THEY ARE COMMUNIST TRAITORS”

      That’s more of a 50-70s thing. In the 1920s communism wasn’t a big idea in the US and God wasn’t in the pledge nor part of our national motto.

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        The first Red Scare was in 1919 and communism was a big enough idea in the US that the government was putting communists in prison