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While a trial was in progress, preparations to lynch the victim were made outside. When constables walked out with Hamilton, the crowd seized and hanged him. [26] [27] Jim Wilson: Oakland: Caroline: Maryland: 1862: Rape and murder of an eight year old white girl [28] Great Hanging at Gainesville (number >16) Adult men: White: Gainesville: Cooke ...
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 ...
The Victims of Southern Mob Violence (University of North Carolina Press, 2015). ISBN 978-1-4696-2087-9. Cameron, James. A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story, (Black Classics Press, 1982/reprint 1994). Carr, Cynthia, Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, A Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America, (Random House, 2007). Madison, James.
Sheriff Wright said that the mob was "unexpected," and that while he pleaded with the mob "to let the law take its course." [1] Deputy Sheriff Hugh Curtis stated the lynching took place in a "quickly, quietly and orderly" fashion. [39] The mob was also reported to be "highly organized" and was said to have executed the lynchings "in a jiffy."
The lynch mob taking a battering ram to the doors of the jailhouse. At approximately 9:00 p.m., Rolph canceled a planned trip to the Western Governors' Conference in Boise, Idaho, [63] to prevent his chief political rival, Lieutenant Governor Frank Merriam, from calling out the National Guard to stop the lynchings.
The new library display includes biographical information about him and the other victims, killed between 1885 and 1921, and also includes a congressional acknowledgment of the lynching victims ...
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 ]
A colorized postcard of the lynching of Virgil Jones, Robert Jones, Thomas Jones, and Joseph Riley on July 31, 1908, in Russellville, Kentucky. A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed, collected, or kept as a souvenir.