Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss

Today's lynching comes to us from the pages of Lincoln Journal Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) dated August 1, 1922: LYNCH NEGRO IN THE SOUTH "PUNK"HARRIS SHOT YOUNG BUSINESS MAN.  WAS SURPRISE...

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Today I will start with an article covering the results of a private detective's investigation into the lynching. If you are like me, you were probably wondering how a man going around a town ask...

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Our lynching today comes from the New Orleans Republican dated June 18, 1873. A quick note, the New Orleans Republican is the only paper I could find that listed the names of the three lynched m...

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Today we are looking at "Negro" papers and their reactions to the lynchings. We are starting with The Topeka Plaindealer (Topeka, Kansas) dated April 28, 1899: IT IS HELL!  THERE IS NO OTH...

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Today's lynching is very short as every article I could find on this lynching shared the same information. Our paper today is the Pittsburgh Daily Commercial (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) dated Dec...

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Today's lynching will point out just how easy it is for contemporary newspapers to mix up their information. Just a warning folks, this post is a bit long and slightly repetitive. Feel free to s...

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Hello, everyone. A has found that the Sam Hose lynching has several layers that she wants to display in detail. But, since Sam Hose makes our 1000th person lynched and there are more victims com...

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The lynching of Sam Hose caught the attention of many people. There were differing opinions across the country and many papers shared those opinions.  I'm starting The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsb...

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I have taken a long break, but I am trying to get back into the swing of things. I have been focusing on myself in the interim. I am agoraphobic with a general anxiety disorder added on. I have b...

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To put today's lynching into some historical context, Mr. Bird was lynched 5-8 hours before Germany signed the Armistice ending World War I. We were that close to the end of a major war and peop...

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Our lynching today stems from labor issues going on in Montana. Our first paper is The Wichita Beacon (Wichita, Kansas) dated August 1, 1917: HANG AN I.W.W. TO A TRESTLE _______ SHORT SHIFT ...

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Our lynching today comes from The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana) dated June 24, 1917: COURTNEY, TEXAS, IS QUIET AFTER LYNCHING OF NEGRO WEDNESDAY ________ Courtney, Texas, June 23.—The popu...

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Today we'll be looking at the lynching of Wade Hamilton in Rock Springs, Wyoming. It's unknown whether this was actually the man's name because only one article lynches it and it's facts differ ...

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Our lynching today comes out of The Daily Union-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) published December 29, 1880: THE FIRST LYNCHING EVER KNOWN IN PENNSYLVANIA ———— FULL PARTICULARS OF ...

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The lynchings that we'll be covering today are outrageous. It was heard across the United States, but today is relatively unknown. Like the lynching of Washington and Johnson mentioned earlier t...

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Our first article comes from The Cairo Bulletin (Cairo, Illinois) published Tuesday June 23, 1874: Sequal to the Halbirt Murder. The Murderer, Clark Evans, Lynched. CARROLLTON, ILL., June 22...

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Today we'll be looking at the lynchings of two men in Frankfort, Kentucky. The first lynching was of Harry Johnson, reported in The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio) dated August 5, 1871 ...

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Hey everyone, K here. Sorry there hasn't been an article recently. I was in the middle of moving, but having done that articles should continue fairly regularly. Our first article comes from ...

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The main issue with tracing lynchings is the confusion of names in the newspaper. Many papers failed to get the names of lynching victims correct. Such as Holley Speakes who could also be known ...

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Our first article is from the The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio) published July 30, 1874: HANGING A BOY. We do not consider hanging at all a fit penalty for horse-stealing, even wh...

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I just wanted to say hello to everyone. I'm K, daughter of the author who originally started this blog. Since she is currently focusing on life, but thinks its important to continue covering lync...

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I have spent two years and three months writing this blog. In that time I have covered the lynchings of 1, 009 persons, and posted 69 articles of interest and editorials. I am hoping that I have...

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Today we learn about a lynching in New York through the pages of The Indianapolis news (Indianapolis, Indiana) dated June 3, 1892: A LYNCHING IN NEW YORK. THE VICTIM A NEGRO WHO COMMITTED A ...

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Today we learn about a Missouri lynching through the pages of The Hays Free Press (Hays, Kansas) dated July 29, 1899: WHIPPED AND THEN LYNCHED. MISSOURI NEGRO MEETS DEATH AT THE HANDS OF A M...

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The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) dated September 22, 1876: LYNCHED. LOUISVILLE, Sept.21.—Alfred Bodman, of Brownstown, Ind., was lynched Thursday morning while returning from Jefferso...

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