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The lynching of Leander Shaw occurred near midnight on July 29, 1908, in Pensacola, Florida.Shaw was accused of the attempted murder and rape of 21-year-old Lillie Davis. Shaw, being positively identified by Davis, was arrested and taken to jai
Attempted murder and rape of 21-year-old Lillie Davis: After Shaw was identified by Davis, he was arrested and taken to the county jail. An angry white mob broke into the jail and took Shaw, lynching him in Plaza Ferdinand VII. [285] Riley, Joseph: African American: Russellville: Logan: Kentucky: July 31, 1908
Headline and lead paragraph in The Atlanta Georgian of September 10, 1912, reporting the lynching of Rob Edwards Location of Forsyth County within the U.S. state of Georgia. In Forsyth County, Georgia, in September 1912, two separate alleged attacks on white women in the Cumming area resulted in black men being accused as suspects. First, a ...
Scholars have called capital punishment as "legal lynching," with the overlapping history of the peak of lynching with the rise of the death penalty. 'A new version of lynching': Why the cases of ...
Lillie Davis, another of her "girls", became involved with outlaw and Wild Bunch member Will "News" Carver. She later claimed she had married Carver in Fort Worth before he died in 1901, but no records to verify the alleged marriage. [ 3 ]
The Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018 was a proposed bill to classify lynching (defined as bodily injury on the basis of perceived race, color, religion or nationality) a federal hate crime in the United States. The largely symbolic bill aimed to recognize and apologize for historical governmental failures to prevent lynching in the ...
July 25, 2022 – Hayden Davis, a 28-year-old African-American transgender woman was fatally shot in Detroit. Witnesses claimed she jumped from a vehicle and her murderer shot her multiple times while she attempted to flee. [448] July 30, 2022 – Christian Peacock, a 17-year-old gay man, was assaulted outside his home in Sandy, Utah.
Davis returned to the swamps of Louisiana, and was captured and charged with murder and robbery some years later. Before his lynching, he confessed to murdering his companion, whose real name was Charlotte Shepard. According to him, she was part of a gang of cutthroats that operated in the area shortly after the American Civil War. Eventually ...