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The Jolly 01’ Elf had a busy day Sunday at Kingfisher’s Downtown Holiday Open House. He started hearing early Christmas lists and taking photos at Century 21/Goodyear Green (top left), although Judah Mayfield, 3, is only slightly less skeptical than little brother Zion, 1. Then Santa hitched a ride with the Express Employment Professionals team of Clydesdales, bottom left, for a ride to the Kingfisher County Courthouse. He was greeted there by crowds that included twins Truett and Tatum Humphries, 7, and big sister Saydee, 10, top right. The Kingfisher High School choir, under the direction of Diann Magnus sang and led Christmas carols until dusk (bottom center). And finally, Santa rounded out the evening by flipping the switch on the Christmas tree, along with Chamber Manager Shawna Rupp.
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Read moreI was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett Till was lynched in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, and his brutalized, unrecognizable body later recovered from the Tallahatchie River. From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Roughly 73 %, or 3,446, were black people, and 27 % , or 1,297, were white people. Many whites were lynched because they were Republicans who supported their fellow black citizens and opposed the lawless act of lynching. Tuskegee University has the best documentation of lynching. It records an 1892 high of 69 whites and 161 blacks lynched. By the 1940s, occurrences of lynching fell to single digits or disappeared altogether.
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