It was an alarming spectacle to see just two weeks before Christmas. After most of the city of Richmond had gone to bed on Dec. 10, 1966, police spotted a burning cross behind the governor’s mansion. “Police discovered the burning cross shortly before midnight on Governor Street,” reads an article in the Dec. 12, 1966, Times-Dispatch. “It was propped up against a wall that surrounds the Governor’s Mansion.” Just four days earlier, Gov. Mills Godwin Jr. in a speech had decried the “reprehensible” practice of burning crosses, which he said had been “long associated with the record of bigotry compiled...
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