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A Missouri city doubles down on rejecting lynching monument in memory of John Buckner

A Missouri city doubles down on rejecting lynching monument in memory of John Buckner
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Valley Park says no to a nonprofit's push to commemorate a lynching

VALLEY PARK — In the early hours of Jan. 17, 1894, a mob lynched a 24-year-old Black man named John Buckner, hours after he d been accused of raping a Black ....

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A nonprofit wants to mark the site of a lynching in Valley Park. The city says no.

The St. Louis County suburb insists John Buckner was killed on the south side of the Meramec River, outside the current city boundaries. ....

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