Wikipedia, which seemingly has an entry for everything, lacks information on historic Black Kansas Citians. The Kansas City Library is mobilizing a group of volunteers to fix that.
More than 120 years ago, a Black man was accused of raping a white woman in the city of Decatur, Illinois, but before Samuel Bush could be tried, a vicious mob forcibly took him from a local jail, beat him and hung him from a telephone pole. Now, an effort is underway to memorialise the brutal lynching.
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Jun. 4 The two girls and their parents huddled in their two-bedroom home, squeezed under a bed or hiding in a closet as gunshots rang out and their neighborhood burned down around them. It was May 31, 1921, the day that came to be known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. The only thing that spared this family was a white man who lied to the mob, claiming the house was his and therefore should not be .