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A historical marker has been unveiled in honor of Robert Mosley, a victim of an 1890 lynching in Alabama, per WAFF.
Mosley was killed after a white woman accused him of burying her alive. The then-16-year-old was attacked by a white mob and hung from a tree. Mosley's body was discarded and later found roughly a half-mile from where the historical marker was erected.
Dozens of community members gathered to unveil Mosley's marker earlier this month. The Madison County Remembrance Project and the Equal Justice Initiative collaborated to erect the historical marker.
“Our objective is to try to commemorate all of those lives so we hope to be able to see markers installed in the proximity of those events over the course of the next several years,” David Person, a co-founder of the Madison County Remembrance Project, said in a statement.
Mosley is among at least ten lynching victims in Madison County, according to the Equal Justice Initiative. The organization hopes to erect a marker for each of them.
The Equal Justice Initiative believes Mosley is one of at least ten victims of lynching in Madison County.
“What happened here and in other places around Huntsville, it was wrong. Simply put, it was wrong,” Carl Cooney Jr. of the Prince Hall Masons of Alabama said. “It was a bad spot on our American history, however each one we remember, each one that we commemorate places us a step further as a country and garners more togetherness.”
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