In August 1938, James Joseph “Jimmy” Hines, the Tammany Hall leader of the Eleventh Assembly District of Manhattan, became the subject of a media feeding frenzy. Hines was charged with being a paid protector of the illegal lottery ring operated by mobster...
In April of 1980, three men traveling in a car on a street in Chattanooga, Tennessee fired shotgun blasts at four Black women waiting for a cab. A fifth women was hit by flying glass.
The driver and his two passengers were all members of the Ku Klux Klan...