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Pictures of his lynching were sold to white citizens for five cents each. [354] Lang, Ed: African American: Rice: Navarro: Texas: 1916 "Attacking a young woman." Taken from a sheriff's posse and hanged. [355] Richards, John: African American: Goldsboro: Wayne: North Carolina: January 12, 1916: murder: Taken from jail and lynched [356 ...
On June 21, 1964, three Civil Rights Movement activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by local members of the Ku Klux Klan.They had been arrested earlier in the day for speeding, and after being released were followed by local law enforcement & others, all affiliated with the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [1]
Sheriff Wright handed Elijah and Joe Ed to George Windham's brother, Gus, allowing him to have unaccounted for time with the men. [19] Gus Windham would later drop the men off at the neighboring county jail in Grenada, where Elijah and Joe Ed—who maintained that they "didn't know nothing" about the crime and calling Windham, "a fine man ...
A newspaper photo of the courtroom during the 1931 murder trial of Herbert Johnson. Seated, from left, are Deputy Sheriff Jesse Millspaw, defendant Herbert Johnson and Johnson's lawyer, Francis L ...
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 ...
Local law enforcement deny a lynching took place in Vance County, despite calls for justice for a Black truck driver found dead with a rope around his neck in Henderson going viral on social media.
It started when white sailors jostled Brad and a Black friend. Charles Bradley Smith was born May 22, 1892, in Edgefield, South Carolina, the same state where his father had been born, probably ...