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The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre: 1906 Sep 22 -24 Atlanta: Georgia: 27+ Racially motivated massacre against African Americans. 1908 Hickman massacre: 1908 Oct 3 Hickman: Kentucky: 4-8 A mob of around 50 men who called themselves "Night Riders" shot 8 members of the Walker family, four of which are confirmed to have died. [31] Villisca massacre ...
Lynching could involve victims being hanged furtively at night by a small group or during the day in front of hundreds or even thousands of witnesses; the latter is known as "spectacle lynchings". The whole community might attend; newspapers sometimes publicized them in advance, and special trains brought in more distant community members. [ 15 ]
The lynching of Marie Thompson of Shepherdsville took place in the early morning on June 15, 1904, in Lebanon Junction, Bullitt County, Kentucky, for her killing of John Irvin, a white landowner. The day before Thompson had attempted to defend her son from being beaten by Irvin in a dispute; he ordered her off the land.
For decades, the family of World War I veteran CL Daniel didn’t know where he was buried but believed he died in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. An investigation of unmarked graves recently solved ...
I was even more surprised to discover that the incident in Corbin was one of approximately 35 “race riots” that had occurred that year in the United States. The period is referred to as “The ...
Dixon is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Webster County, Kentucky, United States. [2] The population was 933 at the 2020 census. Dixon is located at the junction of US 41A and KY 132. It was established with a courthouse and post office in 1860 when the county was formed.
A World War I veteran is the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that devastated the city’s Black community, the mayor ...
Leonard Woods was a 30-year-old Black miner who lived in Jenkins, Kentucky.Jenkins was a new company town in Letcher County, built to accommodate the workers of the Consolidation Coal Company, or Consol, which was opening mines on the Cumberland Plateau in Eastern Kentucky, and had managed to get the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to extend its line to serve its needs.