On this day in 1959

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On this day in 1959

April 25, 1959 Credit: Courtesy of Oxford University Press Days before his scheduled trial, Mack Charles Parker, a 23-year-old Black truck driver, was lynched after midnight by a hooded mob of white men in Poplarville, Mississippi.  Parker had been accused of raping a pregnant white woman and was being held in a local jail. A deputy reportedly unlocked the jail, enabling a white mob to enter Parker’s cell. The mob dragged Parker head first down…