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Lynching in America
When Emmett Till was murdered, the head of the NAACP, Roy Wilkins, lambasted Mississippi and called Emmett's murder a lynching. "It would appear from this lynching that the State of Mississippi ...
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"The Barn," on the lynching of Emmett Till, and an evil hiding in plain sight
If you know where to look in the Mississippi Delta, you can find markers of what a culture has spent decades trying to erase. This plaque at the Tallahatchie River – replaced every now and then ...
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LYNCHING IN MISSISSIPPI.; Coroner's Jury Finds Negro Was Killed by an Unknown Mob.
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A New Memorial Remembers the Thousands of African-Americans Who Were Lynched
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (artist rendering), which commemorates 4,400 lynching victims ... was accused by neighbors in Doddsville, Mississippi, of killing a white farmer.
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GIRL AIDS AT LYNCHING.; Negro Led to Death on a Black Horse in a Mississippi Town.
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