{"id":999,"date":"2021-02-19T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=999"},"modified":"2022-05-13T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T21:50:32","slug":"appalachia-and-the-first-anti-lynching-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=999","title":{"rendered":"Appalachia And The First Anti-Lynching Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wise County, Virginia, saw very little racial violence after the Civil War.  In fact, up until 1927, there were only three known cases of death by lynching in this southwestern Virginia county.  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