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Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy

A recently released report claims nearly four-thousand African American southerners were murdered by white  mobs between 1877 and 1950.  David Hurand spoke with Carolina Public PressInvestigative reporter Jon Elliston about the four year study,  Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror.

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