Community gathers at vigil commemorating lynching victim Wyatt Outlaw

Attendees lift their candles during “This Little Light of Mine” led by musician and Elon Law alum Ernest Lewis Jr. at the Alamance County Courthouse on Feb. 22.

Members of the community and Alamance County Remembrance Coalition gathered outside of the Alamance County Courthouse on Feb. 22 to hold a vigil honoring the life of Wyatt Outlaw.

Outlaw was lynched by a mob of White Brotherhood members outside the courthouse on Feb. 26, 1870. Outlaw lived in Alamance County and served as the town commissioner of Graham…

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