The great-granddaughter of a lynching victim from 89 years ago has made history being sworn in as the first Black woman to serve on the Michigan Supreme Court, according to CNN. Kyra Harris Bolden rose from being a member of the state House to serving in a critical decision-making role ensuring justice for those denied it, like her great-grandfather.
In 1939, 20-year-old Jesse Lee Bond was at the SY Wilson store in Arlington, Tennessee. Reports say Bond, like many sharecroppers, went to the store to buy crops. When Bond paid for his goods, he asked for a receipt, which was frowned upon because it was assumed Black people would try to cheat the white store owners.
“- old man Wilson got angry and said get that person and bring them back into me… When [Bond] came back, they began to shoot him and riddled him to the outhouse. They took him, dragged him, castrated him, and stuck him out in the Hatchie river,” said Ronald Morris, Bond’s nephew via ABC 24 News.
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