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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.
1930 lynching. Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, lynched in Marion ... Climate data for Marion, Indiana (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1893–present) Month Jan Feb Mar
America's Black Holocaust Museum was founded in Milwaukee by James Cameron, who survived a lynching in 1930 in Marion, Indiana, when he was 16 years old.. According to the museum’s executive ...
According to Ida B. Wells and the Tuskegee University, most lynching victims were accused of murder or attempted murder. Rape or attempted rape was the second most common accusation; such accusations were often pretexts for lynching black people who violated Jim Crow etiquette or engaged in economic competition with white people.
The death of a young Black man who was found hanging from a tree in Indiana nearly 100 years ago has finally been ruled a lynching, officials said.
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The show of force effectively brought an end to vigilante lynching in Indiana. Only two recorded lynchings have occurred since then, the 1930 murders of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. Lynching in Indiana was not explicitly racial, but tended to occur against anyone suspected of murder.