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This day in history — April 25, 1959 — Mack Charles Parker Lynched in Mississippi

In what some historians call the β€œlast classic lynching in the United States,” Mack Charles Parker was killed on April 25, 1959, after he was accused of raping a pregnant white woman in Mississippi. Parker, a black man, denied the … Continue reading

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