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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.
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]
South Carolina: July 29, 1903: Being a Jewish-American peddler who was helping the murderer's wife carry some things to her house. Murdered by gun and ax; an anti-Semitic murder. [249] Lee, "General" African American: Reevesville: Dorchester: South Carolina: January 13, 1904: Knocking on the door of a white woman's house [250] Clark, Jumbo ...
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.
His findings in the 19th-century lynching — one of several in the South Carolina Midlands — were detailed in stories in The State in 2021, and are the subject of the new six-part podcast ...
They beat, stabbed and shot Earle to death. [1] [2] Strom Thurmond, the newly elected governor of the state, condemned the murder. Thurmond directed state police to work alongside the FBI, and summoned South Carolina's foremost prosecutor, Solicitor Robert T. Ashmore to try the case. More than 150 suspects were questioned in the days after ...
In the primary of South Carolina's gubernatorial election in July 1916, three months before Crawford's lynching, Manning had debated former governor (and future senator) of South Carolina Coleman Livingston Blease in Abbeville. Blease was known for his racist rhetoric, and he hurled invective at Manning's progressive approach toward race ...
Lynching deaths in South Carolina (9 P) M. Mass shootings in South Carolina (1 C, 8 P) P. ... 2016 Townville Elementary School shooting; W. Isaac Woodard