{"id":21831,"count":1,"description":"Duck Hill is a town in Montgomery County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 746 at the 2000 census.\nDuck Hill is located at 33\u00b037\u203255\u2033N 89\u00b042\u203253\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff33.63194\u00b0N 89.71472\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 33.63194; -89.71472 (33.631875, -89.714655).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6\u00a0km), all of it land.\nDuck Hill was the scene of two of the most infamous lynchings in U.S. history. In 1937, a white mob, in broad daylight, seized two black men who had just been arraigned for murder. The men, Bootjack McDaniels and Roosevelt Townes, were transported by school bus to the lynching site, where they were tied to pine trees. Before a mob of some 500 white men, women, and children, McDaniels was repeatedly burned in the chest with a blow torch; the mob then finished him off with intense gunfire. The lynchers then turned the blowtorch on Townes; they then burned him to death on a gasoline-soaked pyre. A third black man, Shorty Dorroh, was flogged and...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/duck-hill\/","name":"Duck Hill","slug":"duck-hill","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/21831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=21831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}