/tags/lynching Lynching en-US Copyright © 2024 ÍâÍøÌìÌà Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:00:00 GMT /culture-history/2023-10-20/last-living-witness-to-emmett-tills-kidnapping-tells-his-story-at-siu-equity-symposium The Rev. Wheeler Parker of Summit, Illinois, traveled with Till and other family members to Mississippi in 1955 when he was kidnapped and later murdered. After all these years, Parker said Till’s story still needs to be told. Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:00:00 GMT /culture-history/2023-10-20/last-living-witness-to-emmett-tills-kidnapping-tells-his-story-at-siu-equity-symposium Will Bauer /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2023-10-09/valley-park-doubles-down-on-rejecting-lynching-monument A dispute over the location of an 1894 lynching roils a Missouri town. Mon, 09 Oct 2023 22:33:00 GMT /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2023-10-09/valley-park-doubles-down-on-rejecting-lynching-monument Danny Wicentowski /culture-history/2023-08-22/pierce-city-missouri-vigil-remembers-3-black-men-killed-during-1901-lynchings A longtime Monett Times newspaper reporter has held the vigil annually for more than 30 years in the southwest Missouri town. Tue, 22 Aug 2023 10:00:00 GMT /culture-history/2023-08-22/pierce-city-missouri-vigil-remembers-3-black-men-killed-during-1901-lynchings Michele Skalicky /government-politics-issues/2018-12-05/kansas-city-memorial-is-among-first-to-honor-a-missouri-lynching-victim Updated on Jan. 8 to clarify that there is an earlier plaque honoring another lynching victim in Missouri.Levi Harrington was lynched on April 3, 1882, in… Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:16:02 GMT /government-politics-issues/2018-12-05/kansas-city-memorial-is-among-first-to-honor-a-missouri-lynching-victim Michelle Tyrene Johnson