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they were forced to leave. their homes were burned. everything they weren t able to gaer on a wagon and save was lost. reporter: denise boyd s great-grandfather owned 200 acres. the family tried to hold on but sold up and left after two years. he had the only working sawmill in forsythe county. eventually they got to joseph and that s when he just packed up my mother and they left. reporter: forsythe county was not an anomaly. hundreds expelled their black communities. right rioters lynched three black men over the murder of a white woman in 1901. in 1909 white residents in anna, illinois, drove out an entire black community after a black man was accused of range a white woman. and in tulsa, oklahoma, a black ....