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BRYAN STEVENSON TO RECEIVE THE CHILDREN OF THE 1919 ELAINE MASSACRE BEARING THE SOIL WHERE RICHARD WRIGHT’S UNCLE WAS LYNCHED
For the first time in our literary history, we read in Black Boy, chapter 2, of a lynching – the disappearance of Uncle Silas Hoskins – seen through the eyes of a child. For the first time in our literary history , a Black man, whose lynching in 1916 has remained a cold case for 106 years and who happens to be Richard Wright’s favorite uncle, will at last be memorialized at the National Lynching Museum.