The US president paid 125,000 francs to families of Italian lynching victims.

Evidence

BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 47 “Secretary of State Blaine wrote to the Marquis Imperiali stating, ‘The President,…instructs me to tender you 125,000 francs,’ the total amount to be distributed among the victims’ families.” Gauthreaux, Italian Louisiana, 77. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 718

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