Josephine Bolling McCall stands with a photo of her father, Elmore Bolling, a successful businessman who was lynched in 1947 when Mrs. McCall was only 5.
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Elmore Bolling defied the odds against black men and built several successful businesses during the harsh era of Jim Crow segregation in the South. He had more money than a lot of white people, which his descendants believe was all it took to get him lynched in 1947.
