Near the site of where a 14-year-old Black girl was falsely convicted of crimes against her rapist, a marker now stands. What it stands for is many-fold: the
Civil rights activists are seeking to draw attention to an 1882 rape that ended with the Black teenage victim dying in prison, her white attacker dead and three men lynched.
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Civil rights activists are pushing for a memorial marker for Margaret Vinegar, a 14-year-old Black girl who in 1882 was imprisoned on claims she lured her White rapist into a robbery.