Huge Confederate flag in NC now has a neighbor -- a Black Lives Matter billboard

[littlemissmartypants]

4. No surprise that Pittsboro's history includes being a KKK haven ... probably still is...

Hopefully, they're turning a page to a better future.

In 1860 nearly one-third of the county population was made up of enslaved African Americans. After the Civil War and emancipation, whites used violence and other means to enforce white supremacy and suppress the freedmen's vote. The Ku Klux Klan and other supremacist groups were active in the county.[6]

Pittsboro was the scene of a notorious mass lynching of four African Americans in 1885, including a woman. The event earned statewide condemnation. Those lynched were tenant farmers. A masked mob took Jerry Finch, his wife Harriet, and Lee Tyson from jail, where they were being held after arrest as suspects in a robbery/murder case.[6] Harriet Finch was one of four black women to be lynched in the state.[7]

Learn more about it at the link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsboro,_North_Carolina

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