Conaway: Facing Shelby County’s infamous history of lynching

By , Daily Memphian Published: September 20, 2019 4:00 AM CT
Dan Conaway
Daily Memphian

Dan Conaway

Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.

As people are being shot while shopping and praying and driving because of what they might or might not believe, or just because of what they look like, it serves us well to remember that we have plenty of homegrown terrorism in our history.

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