whytheracecardisplayed
Nov 11, 20191 min
Updated: May 2, 2023
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In Jefferson, a lynching gang including members of the Ku Klux Klan, assassinated a Northern business man who was sympathetic to African American freedmen. Only three people involved faced penalties. A rampage of racial violence exploded following the murder. But none of the ghost tours mention any of that history. Most, if not all the stories told by the tours in Jefferson are about white people.