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Margaret ”Sis” Vinegar, like countless other Black girls and women of her day and beyond, never saw justice during her short life. But she is now memorialized in Lawrence’s history with a marker, dedicated in her honor Saturday evening.
Near the site of where a 14-year-old Black girl was falsely convicted of crimes against her rapist, a marker now stands. What it stands for is many-fold: the
A dedication ceremony for the historical marker that tells the story of Margaret “Sis” Vinegar, a 14-year-old Black girl imprisoned after her 1882 rape, wil
City leaders have voted to suspend regular meetings of the Community Police Review Board until a work group considering the city’s police complaint process an
Civil rights activists are seeking to draw attention to an 1882 rape that ended with the Black teenage victim dying in prison, her white attacker dead and three men lynched.