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South Carolina: November 1898: Phoenix election riot: Eight or more men were lynched. [201] Sam Hose: about 24: Newnan: Coweta: Georgia: April 23, 1899: Killed his white employer in self-defense. Accusations of rape added to incite lynching. Body parts for sale in a store. Widely publicized and privately investigated. Francesco DiFatta: Italian ...
A lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a mob, and is not limited to deaths by hanging. Pages in category "Lynching deaths in South Carolina" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Willie Leaphart’s death is one of the most detailed lynchings in South Carolina history, yet Burgess’ research uncovers details that point to long-kept secrets and ulterior motives for the death.
Dendy's grave at the Friendship AME Church Cemetery in Clinton, South Carolina. Norris Dendy (May 1900 – July 4 or 5, 1933) was an African-American man who was taken from his jail cell and lynched by a group of white men in Clinton, South Carolina. The son of Martha and Young Dendy, Norris was college-educated and married with five children ...
The lynching was defended by those who agreed with South Carolina senator Benjamin Tillman, who said the "proud people" of Lake City refused to receive "their mail from a nigger." [3] Journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett denounced the lynching and noted that the lynchers had not even pretended that Baker had committed a crime, as mobs often did. [8]
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Two Black men were lynched in Florence County, South Carolina near the border with Williamsburg County, South Carolina for allegedly having relations with a white woman. The news did not reach the national media until January 8, 1922, and so is recorded as the first lynching of 1922 in America. [ 1 ]
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