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The Feminist Press at CUNY Originally published on April 21, 2021 10:38 am In 1904, Burt Bridges was a young husband his wife Mary pregnant with their first child and a successful shop owner with big dreams. He refused to surrender his store and sell his land to the white mayor of Holmesville, Mississippi. For keeping his livelihood and providing for his family, Burt Bridges was lynched. Bridges was the great grandfather of Cassandra Lane, author of We Are Bridges: A Memoir, which won the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. Burt was hung from a tree to die, possibly burned afterward, his death a cause of celebration by the white men who murdered him. Lane writes that his murderers got off scot-free and memory washes its hands of it.

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