On May 27, 1892 in Memphis, Tennessee, a white mob destroyed a local newspaper named the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight run partly by a young black woman. Her office and presses were destroyed because she published true stories describing the horrors of black lynchings in America. These lynchings surged in the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation, a form of de facto racial suppression, and because of this, she felt compelled to share this information with the world. …
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