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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 white employer in rural Robinson, Texas .
The 1916 lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, drew nearly 15,000 spectators. [90] Often lynchings were advertised in newspapers prior to the event in order to give photographers time to arrive early and prepare their camera equipment. [92]
Washington, Jesse: 17: African American: Waco: McLennan: Texas: May 15, 1916: Murder: Washington confessed and a jury found him guilty. Dragged behind car, castrated, fingers cut off, ear cut off, burned alive. Professionally photographed; pictures sold as postcards. Lynching of "political value" to Sheriff and to the judge who presided over ...
In May 1916, he was on the scene when Jesse Washington, a Black teenage farmhand, was lynched in front of a large crowd of onlookers. Gildersleeve's pictures of the event offer rare imagery of a lynching in progress. He printed and sold images of Jesse Washington’s mutilated body as souvenir postcards.
“The last recording lynching in the United States was in 1981,” says Jill Collen Jefferson, who founded a civil rights... View Article The post Washington Post harrowingly reports ...
This file has an extracted image: Lynching of Jesse Washington, 1916 (cropped).jpg. Captions. English. The burned body of Jesse Washington, 15 May 1916.
On Saturday, roughly 20 people, including relatives of Robert Hughes and Jesse Page, gathered for a family and community service of remembrance and ... Historical marker details lynching in Cumberland
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".