Discrimination still abounds in the town where no one was punished for the massacre. Above left, the first Black city commissioner, George Oliver, grasps the lock preventing community members from accessing the former African American cemetery. The city did not even recognize the massacre until two years ago, and it is still working on an apology.



Above right, Narisse Spicer, a great-granddaughter of massacre survivors John and Lucy Hickey, believes that Black voters still face voter suppression at the polls. “We are 100 years into this and we are still dealing with voter intimidation, voter suppression, and issues of race and violence,” Nat Geo’s Sydney Combs quotes her as saying. “It is definitely time, and well overdue, to