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FILE - In this Sunday, April 22, 2018, file photo, a statue of a chained man is on display at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a new memorial to honor thousands of people killed in racist lynchings, in Montgomery, Ala. Facing an impeachment inquiry that he and supporters claim is illegal, President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, that the process is a lynching. Some Republicans agree, but the relatives of actual lynching victims don’t. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Trump lynching claim renews pain for kin of actual victims

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press

Malinda Edwards, and Mildred Betts, daughters of Willie Edwards, Jr., place roses at the new monument to those who were victims of racial terror lynchings or violence during the 1950s located at the Peace and Justice Memorial Center in Montgomery, Ala., as EJI founder and Executive Director Bryan Stevenson, top left, presides, on Monday April 29, 2019. Willie Edwards, Jr., was murdered in Montgomery in 1957. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

New monument extends story of US lynchings into 1950s

By ANDREW J. YAWN - Associated Press