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Historical marker signifies 134th anniversary of Columbia lynching

Keslie Spottsville -- of the CRP-MO Coalition and the board of the Black Archives of Mid-America – speaks Thursday at a ceremony in front of the Boone County Courthouse. A historical marker placement ceremony was held to memorialize the lynching of George Bush, a Black teenager who was lynched at the courthouse on Sept. 7, 1889.
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Keslie Spottsville -- of the CRP-MO Coalition and the board of the Black Archives of Mid-America – speaks Thursday at a ceremony in front of the Boone County Courthouse. A historical marker placement ceremony was held to memorialize the lynching of George Bush, a Black teenager who was lynched at the courthouse on Sept. 7, 1889.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A historical marker placement ceremony was held Thursday, signifying 134 years since a Black teenager was lynched in Columbia.

A historical marker was placed in front of the Boone County Courthouse to memorialize the lynching of George Bush.

On Sept. 7, 1889, a group of white men lynched Bush at the courthouse after he had been accused of assaulting a white girl.

The Community Remembrance Project of Boone County organized the ceremony, along with the Sharp End Heritage Committee and the Boone County Commission, according to a press release.

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