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Claude Neal

Claude Neal: The last ‘spectacle lynching’ in the United States.

Meserette Kentake
October 26, 2018
African American
Claude Neal was a 23-year-old African-American man who was arrested and lynched in Jackson County, Florida on October 26, 1934. He never got to trial. It was one of the most horrific acts of violence in the USA...
Trayvon Martin

Remembering Trayvon Martin

Meserette Kentake
February 26, 2016
African American, Famous Aquarius
Trayvon Benjamin Martin was a 17-year-old African American teenager from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in Sanford, Florida. An athletically-in...
James Cameron

James Cameron: The only known survivor of a lynching

Meserette Kentake
February 25, 2016
African American, Famous Pisces, History Makers
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James Cameron survived being lynched from a maple tree in Marion, Indiana, when he was sixteen years old. Cameron, who kept a piece of the rope that had scarred his neck moments before he was spared, was the on...
Thomas Shipp and Smith

Strange Fruit: The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith

Meserette Kentake
August 7, 2015
African American history, Black History
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Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were two African American men who were lynched on August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana, after being taken from jail and beaten by a mob. They had been arrested as suspects in a robber...

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