The Lynching That Sent My Family North
How we rediscovered the tragedy in Mississippi that ushered us into the Great Migration
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How we rediscovered the tragedy in Mississippi that ushered us into the Great Migration
The killing of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 changed America. But today, if you want to know what happened here, you need to know who to ask.