A group of artists says it is responsible for hanging black nylon stockings in a tree on a South Carolina university campus near a hall named for a post-Civil War-era racist.
"Pitchfork" Ben Tillman helped lead a mob that killed four blacks in July 1876 as racist whites pushed to regain control of state government during Reconstruction.
Eighteen stockings filled with dirt to look abstractly like a human head and body were left hanging on branches and a sign with "Tillman's Legacy" was taped to a plaque.
Authorities are investigating after someone left black nylon stockings filled with dirt hanging from trees outside a South Carolina university hall named for an avowed racist.
