41. A Mississippi historical marker will be…

May 9, 2022

Before daybreak on June 16, 1919, a young white woman named Ruth Meeks arrived at her home in Ellisville and allegedly told her father she had been raped by a black man.

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41. A Mississippi historical marker will be…