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The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted on Jan. 19 to place a marker dedicated to lynching victims on the grounds of the Lafayette County Courthouse. The marker is estimated to be placed around September or October, according to April Grayson, a member of the Lynching Memorialization in Lafayette County steering committee.
The marker will have the names of seven Black men who were lynched in Lafayette County, and it is the result of advocation from the steering committee a group of local citizens committed to telling the stories of lynching victims and the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal aid organization that seeks to reframe the narrative around racial justice.