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A marker dedicated to the seven known victims of lynching in Lafayette County was dedicated in an emotional, public ceremony
OXFORD • After a five-year effort, the seven known victims of lynchings in Lafayette County were remembered at a marker dedication Saturday.
4 min read The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted on Jan. 19 to place a marker dedicated to lynching victims on the grounds of the Lafayette County Courthouse. The marker is estimated to be placed around September or October, according to April Grayson, a member of the Lynching Memorialization in Lafayette County steering committee. The marker will have the names of seven Black men who were lynched in Lafayette County, and it is the result of advocation from the steering committee — a group of local citizens committed to telling the stories of lynching...
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A Mississippi county will put up a marker to remember Black men who were lynched by white mobs between 1885 and 1935