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Artist Jerome Meadows stands in the center of the memorial he created, behind the bronze figure that depicts lynching victim Ed Johnson, in Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 16, 2021. (Wulf Bradley/The New York Times)
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Some Asked, 'Does Chattanooga Need a Lynching Memorial?'
Some Asked, 'Does Chattanooga Need a Lynching Memorial?'
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — In 2018, Georgia-based artist Jerome Meadows was selected for a formidable project: a work of public art memorializing Black victims of lynching for permanent display in a bustling section of Chattanooga, a majority-white, Southern city with a dark history of racial...
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Artist Jerome Meadows stands in the center of the memorial he created, behind the bronze figure that depicts lynching victim Ed Johnson, in Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 16, 2021. (Wulf Bradley/The New York Times)
Chris Moody
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