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World War II begins, a time where Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party killed 11 million people (6 million jewish people).
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Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen year old African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi after reportedly flirting with a white woman. He was murdered by Roy Bryant and his half-brother J. W. Milam
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The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, marked a turning point in the United States 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
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Robert Hillsborough was a gay man who was stabbed to death by a nineteen year old due to the hatred of Hillsborough's sexuality.
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Harvey Milk was an American politician who became the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was shot by supervisor Dan White and died.
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Charles Howard was an American homosexual murder victim in Bangor, Maine in 1984. He was murdered by a group of teenage boys.
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James Zappalorti, a disabled veteran of the Vietnam War, was the victim of a highly publicized, fatal gay-bashing attack on Staten Island, New York.
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Brandon Teena was an American trans man who was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska. His life and death were the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film Boys Don't Cry
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Matthew Shepard was a gay American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured and left to die near Laramie, Wyoming on the night of October 6, 1998 because of his sexuality.
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July 4, 2000, J.R. Warren, a 26-year old African American, gay man was attacked by two 17-year old boys who savagely beat him and then drove back and forth over him until he was dead.
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Gwen Araujo, was an American teenage trans woman who was murdered in Newark, California. She was killed by four men, two of whom she had allegedly been sexually intimate with, who beat and strangled her after discovering she was transgender.
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In 2005, a Jamaican mob chased a man they believed to be gay. The man jumped into the water to escape the mob and drowned.
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In November, 2008, arsonists burned the home of openly gay Melvin Whistlehunt. Investigators found anti-gay messages spray painted on the back of the house.
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Duanna Johnson was beaten by a police officer in Memphis, TN. The police were reportedly calling Duanna (a transgendered woman) a “faggot” and “he-she”. Shortly after threatening a lawsuit against the police department, Duanna was shot by three “unknown assailants”.
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On April 13, 2014 Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. killed a teenage boy and his grandfather outside of a Jewsih Community Center in Overland Park, KS. Miller was a member of a neo-nazi party and former political candidate.
