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Telegraph of April 30, 1836 (Alia)
A slave burning took place in Missouri. Someone tried to end the man's misery by shooting him but was told that he was already out of pain. The man tried to deny this saying he is suffering as much as ever, but again, an officer of justice said he is not to be shot. -
Slave Burning in Mississippi (Alia)
Another slave burning took place in Mississippi. The slave was pierced with a rifle ball and then his body was thrown into the flame. Picquet documents that nearly four thousand slaves were burnt for the moral lesson that no such being existed. -
Another Slave Burning (Alia)
Another slave burning took place in Marshall, Mississippi. The man was stripped to his waist and was barefoot. The fire began to surge around him, but his repeated cries for mercy were unheard. -
Destroying Black People's Homes (Maddy)
30 to 40 citizens of Greensburg, Pennsylvania took part in a lynching. The houses of two black people, suspected of amalgamation tendencies, were torn to the ground, and a fine 2 story house belonging to D. Abercrombie, also a black man, was reduced to a heap of ruins -
Denial of Slave Burning (Alia)
Jefferson Davis, a veteran of the Mexican War, U.S. senator for Mississippi, and the secretary of War under U.S. president Frankline Pierce, publicly denied slave burning in Mississippi. This public denial led to the collection of people's testimonies about slave-burning as proof and was recorded by the New York Tribune in 1860. -
Poltical Lynching (Maddy)
A White Republican, who lived in St. Landry Parish, LA wrote a piece deemed unfavorable by Democrats. A group of Democrats violently forced the editor to write a retraction. White southern Democrats began to fear for a rebellion by Black Americans and began a 2 week spree of murders. Around 250 people were murdered, most of them black. -
Election Day (Alia)
It was election day. Two Black men were beaten to death. Mr. S[avage] was one of the nominees. Wells felt relieved that he was not elected as she thought he was toady and could be easily used by the white men. (29) -
13 Black Men Shot Down in Mississippi (Alia)
Thirteen Black men were shot down in cold blood in Mississippi. The massacre took place because they attempted to assassinate a white man for just cause, according to Well's proposition. (54-55) -
Courthouse Massacre (Alia)
A gang of 50 cutthroats with Winchester Rifles surrounded the courthouse and opened fire on all the Black men. 10 men were killed outright, 3 were mortally wounded, and 6 were severely wounded. This happened because one Black man killed a White man in self-dense. He was brought to trial. On the day of preliminary examination 20 Black men were in attendance when the shooting began, as recorded by Wells. This happened in Carrollton County, Mississippi. (54) -
The Lynching of Sam Hose (Maddy)
A black man named Sam Hose was accused of murdering his employer and raping the employer's wife. When Hose was captured, hundreds of people came to his lynching in Newnan, Georgia. Former-Governor William Atkinson pleaded for people to respect the rule of law, thought that didn't stop people from jeering at Hose as he was tortured, his appendages severed and ultimately burned alive. Spectators collected "souvenirs", pieces of his body. No one was arrested. -
The Lynching of the Turner Family (Veronica)
After her husband's lynching, Mrs. Mary Turner voiced his innocence and threatened to obtain arrest warrants against those who were involved in his lynching. This led to her being the subject of the mob with Mrs. Turner and her unborn child being horrifically and brutally lynched by the same mob as her husband. The sheer brutality of the lynching caused several groups and activists to write on behalf of the late Turner family to the Department of Justice. -
Red Record of Lynching Map (Veronica)
A map that shows the number of lynchings from 1889-1921. It also shows the number of congressmen that voted against the "Dryer Anti-Lynching Bill"
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Dryer Anti-Lynching Bill (Veronica)
The Dryer Anti-Lynching Bill strived to provide equal protection of the laws for every person withing the jurisdiction of the State and to punish lynching as a crime. The bill placed more responsibility on the State and municipal officers to step in for those being threatened by any mob or riotous assemblage. If proven they did not intervene, they could be fined or face jail time. -
The Lynching of Claude Neal (Maddy)
In Florida, Claude Neal was accused of raping and murdering the daughter of his employer. After his arrest, the police moved Neal to another county to obstruct lynchers. This did not deter them though as they took back roads and ended up torturing Neal by cutting the flesh from his body and using hot irons to burn him. Newspapers from across the country decried the killing and the governor received hundreds of telegrams criticizing his inaction.