July 9, 1841: Four Black Men executed for a bank robbery
On July 9, 1841, four Black men were executed. “Having a taste for blood and the destruction of black bodies,” the execution riveted the Euro-American...
Tag : Lynching
The Horrific Lynching of Mary Turner
Mary Turner was a young African-American woman, lynched on May 19, 1918, in Valdosta, Georgia, in a horrific manner. She was eight months pregnant at...
Claude Neal: The last ‘spectacle lynching’ in the United States.
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....
Remembering Trayvon Martin
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...
James Cameron: The only known survivor of a lynching
[dropcap size=small]J[/dropcap]ames Cameron survived being lynched from a maple tree in Marion, Indiana, when he was sixteen years old. Cameron, who kept a piece of...
Strange Fruit: The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith
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...