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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.
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.
Marion is a city in and the county seat of Grant County, Indiana, United States, along the Mississinewa River. [4] The population was 28,310 as of the 2020 census.It is named for Francis Marion, a brigadier general from South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War.
In 1930 the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Veterans Bureau, and Bureau of Pensions were consolidated together into the new Veterans Administration. The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was renamed the "Home Service" within it. The Marion Branch was then renamed the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Marion, Indiana.
Congress established a new Home branch in Grant County, Indiana, on March 23, 1888, with an initial appropriation of $200,000, based on the county residents' providing natural gas supply sufficient for the heating and lighting of the facility. The site selected was near Marion, Indiana, and the new facility was called the Marion Branch. [22]
The Indiana Railroad was created on July 2, 1930, when Midland Utilities purchased the Union Traction Company of Indiana (UTC) and transferred ownership to the IR. Union Traction (UTC) was the largest interurban system in Indiana with 410 miles (660 km) of interurban trackage and 44 miles (71 km) of streetcar lines in Anderson, Elwood, Marion and Muncie.
As Attorney General, Ogden oversaw changes in Indiana banking laws. Ogden also oversaw an investigation into an infamous lynching of two African American teenagers in Marion in 1930 (see Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith). Twelve white men were put on trial for the crime, but they were all quickly found innocent.
August 7 – Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana. They are hanged; James Cameron survives. This will be the last recorded lynching of African Americans in the Northern United States. August 9 – Cartoon character Betty Boop premieres in the animated film Dizzy Dishes. September 8 – 3M introduces Scotch Tape.