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  2. Lynching of Jesse Washington - Wikipedia

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    The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-544-8. Bernstein, Patricia (2007). "Waco Lynching". In Paul Finkelman (ed.). Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-First Century. Vol. 5.

  3. Fred Gildersleeve - Wikipedia

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    On May 15, 1916, a guilty verdict and a death sentence were announced at Waco's courthouse for Jesse Washington, a seventeen-year-old black farmhand, in complicity of the murder of Lucy Fryer, who was found dead seven days earlier. Attendees crowded the courthouse and sidewalks in anticipation of the trial; the crowd of about 2,000 spectators ...

  4. List of lynching victims in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 his trial.

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  6. Lynching in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The 1916 lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, drew nearly 15,000 spectators. [88] Often lynchings were advertised in newspapers prior to the event in order to give photographers time to arrive early and prepare their camera equipment.

  7. Elisabeth Freeman - Wikipedia

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    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".

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  9. 'Waco: American Apocalypse' director explains how the debate ...

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    You touch on this in the series, but then-Attorney General Janet Reno became a controversial figure in the '90s because of incidents like Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing and the return of Elián ...