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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.
Sociologist Arthur F. Raper investigated one hundred lynchings during the 1930s and estimated that approximately one-third of the victims were falsely accused. [4] [5] On a per capita basis, lynchings were also common in California and the Old West, especially of Latinos, although they represented less than 10% of the national total.
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.
The lynching of Henry Lowry, on January 26, 1921, was the murder of an African-American man, Henry Lowry, by a mob of white vigilantes in Arkansas.Lowry (also spelled "Lowery"), a tenant farmer, had been on the run after a deadly shootout at the house of planter O. T. Craig on Christmas Day of 1920.
Most lynchings ceased by the 1960s, [43] [44] but even in 2021 there were claims that racist lynchings still happen in the United States, being covered up as suicides. [ 45 ] In 2018, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice was opened in Montgomery, Alabama, a memorial that commemorates the victims of lynchings in the United States.
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.
A historical marker for Confederate John H. Winder that previously stood in front of the courthouse in downtown Salisbury was removed and a new marker that outlines the lynchings of Garfield King, Matthew Williams, and another unknown male, all lynched in Wicomico County [6] was placed in front of the courthouse where two of the lynchings occurred.