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Mississippi official questions 1 name on lynching memorial

| December 8, 2020 12:30 PM

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — An elected official in Mississippi says he doesn't want to approve a memorial for seven Black people known to have been lynched in Lafayette County between 1885 and 1935 because one man on the marker was accused in a killing.

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