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Updated Mar. 2 Warning: The descriptions in this story and a photograph of a public lynching are graphic and disturbing. Six years ago, a crew replacing light poles on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street found an engraved metal plate. It was a few feet off the ground, blackened with graffiti and hidden behind a planter bursting with bird of paradise, almost invisible. “At this intersection, Nov. 12, 1914, John Evans a black laborer from Dunnellon was lynched,” it said, “condemned by a secret council of 15 of St. Petersburg’s most influential citizens, he was then turned over to a mob of 1,500 white residents and murdered.”

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