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  Accession Number:1993-6
Accession Date:
Condition:fair
Location:Archives, Black Hist, Box 5 Folder 8
Keywords:African-American, lynching, public square
Area of Origin:Springfield MO
Period:1906
Category:Documentary artifact
Object:Print
Maker:
Description/History:Folder contains photocopies of two masters degree theses written by Mary Newland Clary -- one dated 1969 and the other dated 1970 -- about the 1906 lynchings on the public square. Folder also contains a photocopy of both sides of a brass disc. Side 1 reads "3 NEGROES BURNED ON THE SQUARE ESTER OFFERING SPRINGFIELD MO 4.14.06." Side 2 reads "SOUVENIR OF THE HANGING OF THREE NIGGERS SPRINGFIELD MO APR 14 1906."
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