Mamie Lang Kirkland fled Ellisville, Mississippi with her family in 1915 to escape a lynch mob targeting her father and his friend, John Hartfield. Years later, her son Tarabu discovered an article about John's horrific murder in 1919, prompting Mamie to finally confront her childhood trauma by returning to Ellisville at the age of 107.
100 Years from Mississippi
Mamie Lang Kirkland, a seven-year-old girl, and her family had to flee their home in Ellisville, Mississippi in 1915 after a terrifying encounter with a lynch mob, which narrowly targeted her father and his friend, John Hartfield.
