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Terry Blackhawk: A Springfield Ghazal

My grandfather “witnessed a lynching” my father recalled,
but “expressed no shame” about what he’d seen in Springfield.
“Only a boy,” my mother maintained, when my father
began to tell about his father that night in Springfield.

June 1, 2025 · 9 Comments

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