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Ghosts in the Stadium: The 1913 Lynching of Joe McNeely

Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, sits on top of where a 1913 lynching took place. The area where the stadium now stands was once a thriving African-American community called the Brooklyn community. On the same site where the Panthers play professional football, the Good Samaritan Hospital served black Americans during that time….