"I visited many lynching sites. I talked to people who grew up in these towns and walked by these places their whole life. These spaces continued to be inhabited by those memories long after a body was taken down, long after the mob dispersed, long after anyone who was still alive at the time could tell you about it."
https://www.aaihs.org/black-resistance-and-lynching-memory-an-interview-with-mari-n-crabtree-part-i/