American history is shrouded in stereotypes and false accounts that cripple our ability to move forward and achieve a just and equitable society. In a recent survey, 92 percent of middle school children did not know slavery was a central…
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At lynching memorial, steel columns rise and hang overhead like bodies
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Reconcile history or repeat injustice
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Change the future by confronting the past
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Unacknowledged at home — here hang the names of lynching victims from Lacon to Decatur to Lewistown
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Lynching victims in Central Illinois
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BY PAM ADAMS The Equal Justice Initiative documented 56 racial terror lynchings in Illinois, the third highest number among states outside the South. Listed here are some of the lynchings in Central Illinois. Andrew Richards, 9/11/1877, Winchester, Scott County Nelson…