MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — The site of a brutal mob attack more than a century ago in Memphis could become the first lynching site in the country listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a local historian says.
It was a case that echoed all the way to Washington and New York City.
The 1917 lynching of Ell Persons on the Macon Road bridge over the Wolf River was so violent it led to the establishment of a Memphis branch of the NAACP and helped inspire a silent march in New York City, according to Kelsey Lamkin, a historian with the Lynching Sites Project who researched it for nominationto the National Register of Historic Places.
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Dec 1 2022 (all day)
