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Kentucky: July 31, 1908: Victims expressed approval of their lodge brother Rufus Browder's killing his employer. Rufus Browder killed his employer with an axe after being shot in the chest. Browder was arrested and sent to Louisville. The lynching victims expressed approval for his actions and were jailed for disturbing the peace.
Leonard Woods was a 30-year-old Black miner who lived in Jenkins, Kentucky.Jenkins was a new company town in Letcher County, built to accommodate the workers of the Consolidation Coal Company, or Consol, which was opening mines on the Cumberland Plateau in Eastern Kentucky, and had managed to get the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to extend its line to serve its needs.
The attackers found Dickerson crouched in the corner of his cell. Two leaders of the mob were Albert Loback and George Hill. [2] The mob took Dickerson out of the jail to a paved lot outside. They formed a square around him, and someone knocked Dickerson down. Nine shots were fired into him while he lay on the ground.
The story of “Trains” focuses on two victims of the Corbin Expulsion, a father and son living in Knoxville in 1932. ... Knowing that there are people who despise you because of your race is ...
The lynching of the Walker family took place near Hickman, Fulton County, Kentucky, on October 3, 1908, at the hands of about fifty masked Night Riders. [1] David Walker was a landowner, with a 21.5-acre (8.7 ha) farm.
In this image provided by the City of Tulsa, crews work on an excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery searching for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oct. 2022 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The letter, found in the National Archives, states “C. L. was killed in a race riot in Tulsa Oklahoma in 1921.” “She was a very resilient woman,” Poythress said of Amanda Daniel.
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre: 1906 Sep 22 -24 Atlanta: Georgia: 27+ Racially motivated massacre against African Americans. 1908 Hickman massacre: 1908 Oct 3 Hickman: Kentucky: 4-8 A mob of around 50 men who called themselves "Night Riders" shot 8 members of the Walker family, four of which are confirmed to have died. [31] Villisca massacre ...