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[–] 15840678? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

So, racism was over in June of 1959. Nice to know.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Jean_Owens

Betty Jean Owens (1948-) is an African American woman who was brutally raped by four white men in Tallahassee, Florida in 1959.[1] Her trial was significant in Florida, and the South as a whole, because the white men were given life sentences for their crimes. This severe of a sentencing had not occurred for white men in the South accused of raping black women previous to Owens' case.[2]