Middle Neck News

MPAAGS Present Talk On Wytheville Lynching

The Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society invites you to a virtual meeting on Saturday featuring author John M. Johnson who will talk about his book, “A Death Mob Gathered: The Lynching of Raymond Arthur Byrd”. Johnson spent more than thirty years researching the murder of the World War I veteran on August 15, 1926, in Wytheville, Virginia. The meeting begins at 11:00 a.m. via online teleconference.

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