A map of racist violence lies under the South. Some communities are confronting the scars of lynchings while others aren't there yet.
“We are living in a graveyard,” he said. He is now a professor at Auburn University in Alabama.
A mob seized Johnson, 20, a laborer. Kizer was 24 and a tenant farmer nearby. He had on his Sunday go-to-meeting clothes and was apparently on his way to report the crime when he was arrested. Cline has spent all her 70 years in Cabarrus County, and she volunteered 30 with the local history museum. But she didn’t hear about the lynching until adulthood. “It was certainly not something that was talked about in school,” she said.
Several local men had already planned to do just that. They chose former Confederate captain William Tolar to pull the trigger. He “was the one who could be counted on not to lose his nerve,” the Observer reported. When the boat carrying the pardoned men docked on the Cape Fear River, church bells clanged all over the city. “You are honored,” the Fayetteville Eagle crowed. “The right hand of every true man will receive you and help you on to prosperity and happiness.” Indeed they did. Tolar bought thousands of acres of land. Black chain gangs farmed it for him.
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