Miles Davis grew up in East St. Louis, the only black child on a predominantly Jewish and Armenian (!) block.
I know that the shanty whites basically burned down the black part of town after a black man had nearly assaulted a young white girl while she was sleeping.
113 posted on 12/27/2008 9:30:43 AM PST by Clemenza
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