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New UA Class Reveals History of Local Lynchings

On February 28, 2017, Posted by TCRHTF Website Admin , In Articles, By John Giggie,lynching , With No Comments

February 27, 2017

“TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — In the fall of 1933, Dennis Cross, a 50-year-old black man who was paralyzed from the waist down, was accused of sexually assaulting a white woman in Tuscaloosa.…”

The University of Alabama News

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