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It took Tyrone MackLee Randle Jr., two days to find it. The 28-year-old artist and activist, along with two friends, combed Section 17 in the city’s largest and oldest cemetery looking for the final resting place of George Marshall Clark. In the early morning hours of Sept. 8, 1861, Clark became Milwaukee’s only lynching victim. Clark was hastily buried that day in Forest Home Cemetery, somewhere in Section 17, a grassy knoll now dotted with 200-year-old trees. He was 24 years old, according to cemetery records. That’s where Randle and his friends searched among a patchwork of graves, some marked by weather-beaten headstones, others unmarked, buried beneath the Earth. They made pencil rubbings to trace barely legible inscriptions, to no avail.

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