In the winter of 1980, the quiet town of Idabel, Oklahoma, became the setting for a tragedy that would expose deep-seated racial tensions. On the cold night of January 19th, 15-year-old Henry Lee Johnson, an African American male, along with his younger brother and some friends, took a familiar shortcut through the parking lot of the Black Hat Club. This local establishment, situated in a predominantly Black neighborhood, was known to be a segregated club for white patrons only and had a history
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