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.](https://abc17news.b-cdn.net/abc17news.com/2023/09/MicrosoftTeams-image-2023-09-07T212930.926.jpg)
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.