April 25, 1959: A white mob in Mississippi killed Black man, Mack Parker. He was Accused of raping a white woman, but statements from the community suggested the woman lied to hide her affair with a white man. The police failed to investigate.
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"Lynching of Mack Parker, 1959." Historianspeaks, April 28, 2026. https://historianspeaks.org/blog/lynching-of-mack-parker-1959.
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