150 years after an 84-year-old Black man was lynched and 116 years after a Black woman was fatally shot, Springfield remains a center of calls for racial justice.
150 years after the lynching of an 84-year-old Black man in Springfield and nearly 116 years after Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, was fatally shot by a White sheriff's deputy, Springfield remains the center of calls for racial justice. Both tragedies sparked activism, and local activists and historians now hope Massey's death will spur change, as did the earlier murder of the city's Black residents.
July 27, 2024
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