August 19, 2019
A small crowd gathered Aug. 8 at the corner of King Street and Fairfax Street to commemorate the lynching of Benjamin Thomas that took place there in 1899.
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Healing Alexandria’s History of Racial Terror
Community commemorates 1899 lynching near Market Square.
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