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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.
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 ...
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 1930 census showed 90 African Americans living in Maryville, with 35 enrolled in the town's school. By 1931, the number of African Americans had dropped to six, and eventually almost all left the town in fear. Franklin Roosevelt campaigned in 1932, saying he was going to take steps to stop all lynchings. Ironically, he did not back the ...
Lynching was used as a tool to repress African Americans. [1] The anti-lynching movement reached its height between the 1890s and 1930s. The first recorded lynching in the United States was in 1835 in St. Louis, when an accused killer of a deputy sheriff was captured while being taken to jail.
Nine-tenths of all lynchings during the 1890s to the 1940s in the United States occurred in the South. [6] Lynching had been declining, but in 1930, there was a sudden rise in lynchings. [7] In 1930, there were 21 reported lynchings, and 20 of the victims were African Americans. [8]
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 ...
The attack was the first lynching in South Carolina since Henry Campbell in November 1932, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), though the lynching of Dan Jenkins in June 1930 was the last in South Carolina to be "officially recorded", according to the Greenville News. [10]