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Photos: Less than a century ago, 20,000 people traveled to Kentucky to see a white woman hang a black man | by Rian Dundon | Timeline
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Photos: Less than a century ago, 20,000 people traveled to Kentucky to see a white woman hang a black man | by Rian Dundon | Timeline
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