Cordella Stevenson: The Woman Brutally Lynched by a White Mob for Her Son’s Alleged Crime

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Cordella Stevenson was a Black woman living in rural Mississippi. In 1915, after her son was suspected of a crime he didn’t commit, a white mob kidnapped and lynched her, leaving her body hanging in public. No one was ever held accountable for her murder. The lynching of Cordella Stevenson was part of the broader […]
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