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Year: 1906; Place: Gaston, S.C. My great-grandfather was lynched there
My great-great-grandfather, Moses, was a fighter and resister who was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in 1906 for his efforts to encourage Black people to exercise their constitutional right to vote, and…
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