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The Northern California town where lynchings were a point of pride, until they weren t Dylan Svoboda FacebookTwitterEmail Lizzie DuBose, 27, poses for a photo in a wooded area near a friend s home.Jungho Kim/Jungho Kim/Special to SFGATE On a Tuesday evening in April, Lizzie Dubose, a 27-year-old African American college student from Placerville, California, tuned into the small Gold Rush town’s City Council meeting via Zoom, as she had every two weeks since last June, and patiently waited her turn to speak. DuBose listened as City Council members approved a pavement project, considered sending a letter opposing a state bill and confirmed appointees to its economic advisory committee. By 6 p.m., what she and hundreds of others on the virtual call had been waiting for finally came before the council: the future of Placerville’s controversial rough-and-tumble identity. Up first: its city logo. ....