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DECATUR, United States: More than 120 years ago, a Black man was accused of raping a white woman in the city of Decatur, Illinois, but before Samuel Bush could be tried, a vicious mob forcibly took him from a local jail, beat him and hung him from a telephone pole. Now, an effort is underway to memorialize the brutal lynching.“We learn from past mistakes so it doesn’t happen again,“ said Rich Hansen, a local high school history teacher who is campaigning to dedicate a memorial to Bush in the American Midwestern city. “If we as a nation are going to move past this racial divide, we need to first of all be educated in what came forth and understand why it happened.”A year after the killing of

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