This documentary investigates how a single misheard word caused a deadly stampede that claimed more than 100 lives at the Shiloh Baptist Church in 1902...
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*CHAPTERS:* 🔖
► 00:00 - Intro
► 00:38 - Background
► 02:55 - The Shiloh Baptist Church Disaster
► 09:29 - The Aftermath
*MUSIC:* 🎵
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
*SOURCES:* 📑
► "More than One Hundred Negroes Crushed to Death as a Result of a Panic Following a Cry of 'Fire'", published by The Birmingham News, September 1902. Available via: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/605719915/
► "The Trumpet Blast" by Reverence RH Walker Jr, published by RH Walker Jr, published 1902. Available via: https://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4017coll8/id/5522
► "Hundred Fifteen Killed" published by the Boston Evening Transcript, September 1902. Available via: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19020920&id=wYU-AAAAIBAJ&pg=6271,2347342
► "Dr Booker T Washington" published by Tuskegee University. Link: https://www.tuskegee.edu/discover-tu/tu-presidents/booker-t-washington
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