Ignatius DiManuele, 60, a man born in Italy, spent the late hours of April 30, 1969 behind the bar at Pete DiManuele’s Bar on Easton Avenue in St. Louis, working a night that must have felt ordinary right up until it didn’t. Customers drifted in and out, and around 10:30 p.m. the room held a familiar mix of regulars and conversation. Then three young Black men came through the door, moved about the tavern as if they belonged there, and slipped into the restroom before leaving again, the kind
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