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The 1917 dead
Sources attach this name to the 1 place below. The name itself is part of the folklore record.
The 1917 dead are East St. Louis's remembered victims — the massacre's toll said to be felt in the blocks around 4th and Division where the violence burned. The 'haunting' is grief with an address, attached to one of America's worst racial massacres and the city's unresolved memory of it. East St. Louis' file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The account appears in 'East St. Louis 1917'. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household.