WOW: Lynching Memorial BASHED As "Unfair" To White People

Activists pushing effort to honor three men lynched in Franklin, Tennessee with a public marker is opposed by town critics who claim the marker would be unfair to white residents of the town. John Iadarola and Sharon Reed break it down on The Damage Report.

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Efforts to memorialize lynching victims divide American communities

"For years, activists in Franklin, Tenn., have lobbied for a public marker to remember three men lynched there in the summer of 1868.

Acknowledging the deaths of two Black men, William Guthrie and Lawrence Bowman, and a Jewish man, Samuel A. Bierfield, would force a needed conversation about the town’s racist past, supporters say. Guthrie was murdered after the family of a White woman alleged he had sexually assaulted her, which he denied. The Ku Klux Klan attacked Bierfield for his sympathy toward Black residents, including Bowman, an employee in his store, according to researchers for the Williamson (County) Remembers Committee.

But the effort has been repeatedly blocked by critics worried it could divide the small town south of Nashville that was the site of a key Civil War battle."

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