Lynching of a prosperous Black businessman destroyed generational wealth for his descendants

Evidence

Of Elmore and Bertha Mae’s twenty-seven grandchildren, only eight, including McCall’s two children, graduated from college. McCall says the rest are unemployed or underemployed. They have never known anything like the prosperity of their grandparents. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 927

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly evidences the ‘On Sacrifice’ piece’s theme of how elite-directed violence destroys families, and connects to the reframing argument about systemic white supremacy suppressing Black economic mobility across generations.
• QUESTION: The 8-of-27 college-graduation rate is striking but the counterfactual baseline is unknowable — worth noting as a contested empirical claim rather than settled fact.