Lynchings in America A Nationwide Epidemic LEFT 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion Indiana Shipp and Smith were African American men who were taken from jail by a mob beaten then lynched on 7 August 1930 ID: 323499
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Without Sanctuary
Lynchings
in AmericaSlide2
A Nationwide EpidemicSlide3Slide4Slide5Slide6Slide7Slide8Slide9Slide10Slide11Slide12Slide13Slide14Slide15
LEFT: 1930
lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana. Shipp and Smith were African American men who were taken from jail by a mob, beaten then lynched on 7 August 1930.
RIGHT: A scene that was far too common throughout the south and probably one that served to inspire Billie Holiday’s
Strange Fruit:
Strange
fruit hanging from the poplar trees.Slide16
RIGHT: The
charred corpse
of Jesse
Washington on display
in Robinson
, Texas, after he was lynched in nearby Waco, Texas, on
May
16, 1916
LEFT: A large mob attends an 1882 lynching; location unknown.Slide17
LEFT: A
postcard showing the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota
lynchings
RIGHT: Spectators
at the lynching of Jesse Washington,
one man raised for a better view. May 16, 1916, Waco, Texas. Slide18
RIGHT: Bennie
Simmons, alive, soaked in coal oil before being set on fire. June 13, 1913. Anadarko, Oklahoma. Gelatin silver print. Real photo postcard. 31/4 x 5 in. Itched into negative, “
Edies
Photo Anadarko
Oklo
”.
ABOVE: The
lynching of Laura Nelson
in Okemah
, Oklahoma, on May 25, 1911Slide19
ABOVE: The
corpses of three
Georgia
men hanging from a tree after being lynched in May 1892.
ABOVE: The
lynching of Laura Nelson
in Okemah
, Oklahoma, on May 25, 1911Slide20
ABOVE: Lynching
of Rubin Stacy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1935
LEFT: Klansmen (KKK) with an unidentified victim, date unknownSlide21
The last recorded lynching was on the 21st of March, 1981. The young man’s name was Michael Donald, and he was lynched at the age of
19 in Delaware by members of the KKK.