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Laura and L. D. Nelson were an African-American mother and son who were lynched on May 25, 1911, near Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They had been seized from their cells in the Okemah county jail the night before by a group of up to 40 white men, reportedly including Charley Guthrie, father of the folk singer Woody Guthrie . [ 3 ]
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Source: Gelatin silver print. Real photo postcard. 5 1/2 x 3 1/2. Printed and distributed in 1911. This version was taken from here.Also in James Allen, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, Twin Palms Publishers, 2000, and Kaufman 2011, p. 147, attributed to the Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Saladino was accused of murdering a wealthy merchant. Arena and Venturella happened to have been in the same prison, accused of a different murder. All were rounded up together and lynched to "teach the lawless Italians a salutary lesson." After the lynching, another person confessed to the murder for which Arena and Venturella had been lynched ...
LaShawnda Crowe Storm started The Lynch Quilts Project, which is a community of quilters that work together to depict Lynching of African Americans throughout time by sewing quilts. [5] Her art focuses on issues surrounding Black Americans, such as Redlining , while also contributing to community art projects in Indianapolis.
James Allen (born June 16, 1954) [1] is an American antique collector, known in particular for his collection of 145 photographs of lynchings in America, published in 2000 with Congressman John Lewis as Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.
Pages in category "Women lynching victims in the United States" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The National Conference on Lynching took place in Carnegie Hall, New York City, May 5–6, 1919. The goal of the conference was to pressure Congress to pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, sponsored by Leonidas Dyer (R-MO). It was a project of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), founded in 1909.