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The following is an incomplete list of African Americans who had served in the military during WWI and were killed by white mobs with no trials for alleged crimes. Lynching is embedded deep in America's racial psyche. [2] By 1919, lynching had developed into a programmatic ritual of torture and empowerment to the white race. [2]
Map of Blakely on a map of Early County (left) and Georgia (right). Wilbur Little (also William [1] [2] or Wilbert [3] in some sources) was a black American veteran of World War I, lynched in April 1919 in his hometown of Blakely, Georgia, for refusing to remove his military uniform.
A graph of lynchings in the US by victim race and year [1] The body of George Meadows, lynched near the Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama, on January 15, 1889 Bodies of three African-American men lynched in Habersham County, Georgia, on May 17, 1892 Six African-American men lynched in Lee County, Georgia, on January 20, 1916 (retouched photo due to material deterioration) Lynching of ...
The lynching victims expressed approval for his actions and were jailed for disturbing the peace. On August 1, 1908, a mob demanded release of the men, and lynched them from a tree. A note pinned to one of the men read, "Let this be a warning to you niggers to let white people alone or you will go the same way."
Robert Paul Prager was born on February 28, 1888, in Dresden, Germany.He emigrated to the United States in 1905 at the age of 17. Initially working as an itinerant baker, [3] he was sentenced to a year in an Indiana reformatory for theft.
Articles relating to lynching in the United States, the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s and ended during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
The body of John Lee with members of the lynch mob. John Lee was an African-American man who was lynched on August 12, 1911, in Durant, Oklahoma.After assaulting a woman who had given him some food, he shot her in the hip while fleeing the scene.
In large part due to the events surrounding Lynch's lynching, as well as the representative of Barton County, H. C. Chancellor, giving an impassioned speech calling for the death penalty; the punishment was quickly restored for seven crimes: treason, perjury, subornation of perjury, first-degree murder, rape, kidnapping, and train robbery. [10]