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Jesse Washington was a seventeen-year-old African American farmhand who was lynched in the county seat of Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916, in what became a well-known example of lynching. Washington was convicted of raping and murdering Lucy Fryer, the wife of his employer in rural Robinson, Texas .
A campaign against the practice was launched after the 1916 lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas. The NAACP published graphic photographs of the lynching and raised $20,000 to be used to pursue the ends of justice. [1] The NAACP first flew the flag on September 8, 1936, to mark the lynching of A. L. McCamy in Dalton, Georgia.
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 ...
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Scholars have called capital punishment as "legal lynching," with the overlapping history of the peak of lynching with the rise of the death penalty. 'A new version of lynching': Why the cases of ...
Elisabeth Freeman (September 12, 1876 – February 27, 1942) was a British-born American suffragist and civil rights activist, best known for her investigative report for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on the May 1916 spectacle lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, known as the "Waco Horror".
Lynching was used as a tool to repress African Americans. [1] The anti-lynching movement reached its height between the 1890s and 1930s. The first recorded lynching in the United States was in 1835 in St. Louis, when an accused killer of a deputy sheriff was captured while being taken to jail.
On July 4, 1913, Brad Smith, a young Black man from Newport, was chased down the beach by a mob. He fired a shot in self defense changing his life forever.