George Floyd was lynched when a shopkeeper assumed the $20 bill Floyd used was counterfeit.

… efforts deprived Black people of building generational wealth. For instance, in January of 1879, an angry White mob lynched a Black man, Ben Daniels, and his two sons in Arkansas after he tried to pay for something using a fifty-dollar bill, and a White merchant assumed it must be stolen. That's how rare it was for a Black person to amass wealth during the Reconstruction Era, that a Bla…
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Sep 3, 2023
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George Floyd was lynched when a shopkeeper assumed the $20 bill Floyd used was counterfeit. I never heard whether or not the bill was actually fake.
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I am a sanity-curious former teacher who writes about politics, social issues, memoirs, and a variety of other topics. You can also follow me on Substack.
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