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O'Day Short (clean)

from O'Day Short EP by The Fontana Singers

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December 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the lynchings of O'Day Short, his wife Helen, and their two small children Barry and Ann. (Photo via the Los Angeles Sentinel)

Their crime was being African-American in a White neighborhood of Fontana, California, a steel town 60 miles east of Los Angeles.

The city quickly whitewashed the deaths as accidental, and their murderers were never sought and tried.

Please visit the page for this EP to find out more information on this hate crime, to share this story with your friends, and most importantly to email, phone, and tweet at the current Mayor of Fontana and the county's District Attorney.

Force them to acknowledge this horrific crime, and remind them that justice can't be deferred forever. Seventy years is already too long!

Banner photo by Jeffery Scism via Flickr.

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Lyrics

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I felt the heat blast through the hallway
And lift me closer to the doorway
Ten feet from the rest
Crawling to the street
A rolling holocaust
Inching towards us

Policemen who had come to chase me
Now humming Dixie by my gurney
Cram words down the throat
Of a man whose family
-- Oh, I don't want to know
Oh, I can't bear to

Fontana damned me to not
Die in LA,
Dead to the LA Times.

If you come around
This side of Baseline Road
Don't let the sun go down
Outside your ****** home

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from O'Day Short EP, released October 9, 2015

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The Fontana Singers New York, New York

The Fontana Singers is a one-off band from Brooklyn, New York, with musicians and artists from throughout the United States, including Fontana and San Bernardino.

(Artist photo by Jimmy Emerson, DVM, via Flickr)

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