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100 Years From Mississippi

100 Years From Mississippi

History

100 Years From Mississippi

History

Mamie Lang Kirkland was seven years old when she fled Ellisville, Mississippi in 1915 with her mother and siblings as her father and his friend escaped an approaching lynch mob. Mamie had vowed for a century that she would never return to Mississippi. Yet at the urging of her son Tarabu, she finally confronted her childhood trauma by returning to Ellisville.
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Mamie Lang Kirkland left Mississippi to escape racial violence and did not return for a ce
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