National Lynching Museum is open in Montgomery
By MIKE McMANUS
Special to The Sumter Item
Special to The Sumter Item
Posted 5/6/18
An astonishing new museum has opened in Montgomery, Alabama, which provides evidence there were about 4,400 lynchings of African-Americans in 800 counties across the South from the Civil War up to the Civil Rights era.
Officially, it is called …
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