A Black man's death was ruled a suicide a century ago. A coroner now says it was a lynching

George Tompkins left his home on the morning of March 16, 1922, but the 19-year-old never returned. That afternoon, the Black man’s body was found hanging from a sapling — his hands bound together at Riverside Park in Indianapolis, according to the Indiana Remembrance Coalition.

(SOURCE) https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/16/us/lynching-victim-george-tompkins-death-indiana-homicide/index.html

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