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Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, August 7, 1930. J. Thomas Shipp and Abraham S. Smith were African-American men who were murdered in a spectacle lynching by a group of thousands on August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana. They were taken from jail cells, beaten, and hanged from a tree in the county courthouse square.
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.
Lynching of John William Clark in Cartersville, Georgia, September 1930, after killing Police Chief J. B. Jenkins [2] Lynching was the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s, slowed during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued until 1981.
The lynchings were carried out by a mob of San Jose citizens in St. James Park across from the Santa Clara County Jail, and were broadcast as a "live" event by a Los Angeles radio station. [4] The killings were tacitly endorsed by Governor James Rolph Jr. , who said he would pardon anyone convicted of the lynching. [ 3 ]
America's Black Holocaust Museum was founded in Milwaukee by James Cameron, who survived a lynching in 1930 in Marion, Indiana, when he was 16 years old.. According to the museum’s executive ...
The speculation as to Bannon’s responsibility in the house fire was also reported in a July 10, 1988 Williston (North Dakota) Herald [3] article entitled “Fair Project Recounts 1930’s Murder and Lynching” and a subsequent 1988 letter-to-the-editor of the Williston Herald, in response to the article, entitled “Mob Justice Means Whole ...
Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, lynched August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana. In August 1930, when Cameron was 16 years old, he had gone out with two older teenage African-American friends, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. People said they attempted to rob a young white man, Claude Deeter, and killed him.
John Tinsley, also known as Robert Lee and Lee Brown, shot and killed an Evansville policeman Lewis Massey on July 3, 1903. The shooting sparked a riot that led to Tinsley's attempted lynching and ...