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1930 Marion, Indiana Negro lynchings...
1930 Marion, Indiana Negro lynchings...
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August 08, 1930
FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Mass., August 8, 1930
* Marion, Indiana
* Negroes lynchings
* Grant County Jail
The top of the front page has a three column headline: "Indiana Mob Lynches Two Negroes After Smashing Entrance Into The Jail" with subhead. (see)
Complete with 20 pages, light toning at the margins, nice condition.
wikipedia notes: A lynching occurred in Marion on August 7, 1930. A large mob estimated at 2,000 gathered at the city jail where three young black men were held on charges of killing a white man and raping his girlfriend. Before they could be tried, the three, Thomas Shipp, Abram Smith and James Cameron, were dragged from the jail and severely beaten. Shipp and Smith were hanged, but Cameron was released when an unidentified man claimed that he had nothing to do with the crimes. In 1931 he was convicted as an accessory to murder and served four years before being paroled. The event in Marion was notable as the last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States.
Category: The 20th Century
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