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History of a St. Petersburg lynching was hidden. Not anymore.

Warning: The descriptions in this story and a photograph of a public lynching are graphic and disturbing.

Six years ago, a crew replacing light poles on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street found an engraved metal plate. It was a few feet off the ground, blackened with graffiti and hidden behind a planter bursting with bird of paradise, almost invisible.

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