The circumstances of Finch’s lynching — one of more than 6,500 between 1865 and 1950 — were brought to light in 2017 by Carissa Aranda, a civil rights attorney in western Massachusetts who at the time was a Northeastern University law school student investigating cold cases for CRRJ.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/07/19/atlanta-lynching-police-ku-klux-klan/