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George Bush: The Black Teenager Lynched in 1889 for Allegedly Mistreating a White Girl

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On September 7, 1889, a white mob broke into the Boone County Jail in Columbia, Missouri, seized a Black teenager named George Bush and hanged him from a second-story window of the county courthouse. Bush was just 17 or 18 years old. He had been arrested two days earlier following an accusation by a white […]

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