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Young Girl
Pickens, Mississippi
September 1923
A young girl from Pickens, Holmes County, Mississippi was
riddled with bullets as she tried to run from a mob of nine white
men. Her brother had borrowed 50 cents and when he paid the loan, the white man
wanted 10 cents in interest. The boy didn't have any more money, so he and his
father fled. The nine white men attacked the boy's home, killing his
sister.

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