Has Springfield ever elected a Black lawmaker to Missouri legislature?
The Queen City is growing more diverse, and a demographically similar city elected their first Black representative last year. Is Springfield next?
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Dark events remind us of importance of humanity
Dark events remind us of importance of humanity Matt Wilkie, Springfield On the recent 115th anniversary of Springfield’s darkest day, I visited the graves of Fred Coker and Horace Duncan. On Holy Saturday in 1906, these innocent black men were lynched by a mob and then burned under a replica of the Statue of Liberty at Springfield’s Park Central Square. They were lynched … under the Statue of Liberty … the day before Easter. Could the people in that crowd not see the humanity in Mr. Coker and Mr. Duncan? How can this be? I’m a 48-year-old who moved from Seattle in 1...
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