NC man tells his story after surviving an attempted lynching in 1952

there was a white cell here and a colored cell here there, the last time Council Lynn was in this arts center in Apex, North Carolina, the inside looked very different for decades, this was City Hall, This is the first floor and They have come back here and the jail sales came back here even 67 years later. Linda remembers well the time he spent here and the man who arrested him back then. Apex Police Chief Sam Bagwell acted with near impunity to carry out racist attacks. The brutality of him. He was well documented by the media of the time, but escaped most punishment because, as the Carolina Times put it, he was a valuable asset to the average Southern town.

His job is to keep black people in their place. He is a bad man. We bought it in November. On Tuesday

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, Bagwell arrested the Lynn council claiming he was a suspect in an unsolved robbery at a convenience store. The council would not admit a crime because he says he did not commit it. Lynn recalls that Bagwell became increasingly frustrated by his denial, town historian Toby Holloman then says The council was taken to Wake County for further questioning the next day, a trial in which it appears he pleaded not guilty. because he was not guilty. The next morning, two Bagwell sheriff's deputies took Lynn and the seven other suspects to their police cars. 10 miles into the country, to what is now a two-lane highway near a suburban neighborhood council, he says he was taken under this tree.

They put a rope around his neck and then stood at the other end of the rope and pulled it to pull him to his feet. from the ground I felt him give me a hand he would make me and leave me down here after a minute hanging from the ground he didn't cover me yes, don't tell anyone I'm money Lynn had no answer they took him back to prison and released him on next day, okay, I want to hear what you have to say earlier this year. Lynn told his

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for the first time. When Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker heard her, he felt called to action.

I just rested on myself in my heart to stop. and recognize for the entire world that this officer will claim that the top Police Department publicly apologized for winning and the community held the ceremony in his honor. At the top of that peak, the police chief removed the brick from Bagwell and the photograph of him was taken at the police station these days. Small tokens of remorse This key is to jail while I can't remove Lynn's scars have helped heal his soul. I feel like I have a clean heart and to move forward I prayed that something like that didn't happen. another human being in this county to treat a human being the way you did and then a matter that stops the hi

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of all people then advise history is a reminder of how far we have come and how far we have left to come Chris Benson WUF my news too