J. Thomas Shipp and Abraham S. Smith were African-American boys who were murdered in a spectacle lynching by a group of thousands on August 7, 1930, in...
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Strange Fruit (category Works about lynching in the United States)
his horror at lynchings of African Americans, inspired by Lawrence Beitler's photograph of the 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana...
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lawyer and politician an African-American lynched in 1930 - see Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith Abraham Smith (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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by the city's police. Lawrence Beitler photographed the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in 1930 in Marion, Indiana. Seeing this image inspired...
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Flossie Bailey (category American anti-lynching activists)
and became especially active fighting for justice and equality following the double lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in 1930. As president of...
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Jim Crow laws (redirect from Period of Jim Crow)
Reconstruction era Group Areas Act Jim Crow economy List of Jim Crow law examples by state Lynching Mass racial violence in the United States Penal labor...
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went forward with the lynching and killed him near the Pratt Mines. Following his death, his body was shot multiple times and left in public view by...
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by Side of Son", The Daily Oklahoman, May 26, 1911. "Report of the lynching" (PDF). The Crisis. 2 (3): 99–100. July 1911. "The Oklahoma Lynching" (PDF)...
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The Tuskegee Airmen (category Films about race and ethnicity)
after he witnessed the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. At the end, the film details the unit's accomplishments: 66 out of the 450 Tuskegee Airmen...
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Magnolia (category Culture of the Southern United States)
Lawrence Beitler's 1930 photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith following the robbery and murder of Claude Deteer, was taken in Marion...
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following sections", Disfranchisement, Encyclopedia of Virginia, 19 July 2016; accessed 17 March 2018 Lynching in America, 2nd edition Archived 2018-06-27 at...
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lynched in the county seat of Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916, in what became a well-known example of lynching. Washington was convicted of raping and murdering...
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amended version of the bill which would require "an attempt to do bodily harm" for an act to be considered lynching, noting that lynching is already illegal...
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lynched. The lynching of Leo Frank is the most well-known case in American history. The lynching of Frank is commonly perceived as the only lynching of...
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include some of Shipp's deputies, were actively involved in the lynching, while more spectators gathered around the jail and followed the lynchers to the bridge...
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Social Darwinism (redirect from Creationism and Social Darwinism)
terms of evolutionary biology. The term Darwinism was coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in his March 1861 review of On the Origin of Species, and by the...
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the American Civil War Stephanie Shipp, American economist and social statistician Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, lynching victims in 1930 This page lists...
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Black Buck (category Anti-African and anti-black slurs)
who absolutely refused to bend to the law of white authority and were seen as irredeemably violent, rude, and lecherous. According to popular stereotypes...
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The lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21, 1981, was one of the last reported lynchings in the United States. Several Ku Klux Klan...
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resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, a black civilian; the death of two white rioters; the injuries of many Omaha Police Department officers and civilians...
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worst lynching in US history", Robert Petersen, Off-Ramp, South Carolina Public Radio, 21 October 2016 Barbata Jackson, Jessica. "Before the Lynching: Reconsidering...
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Joseph Smith, the founder and leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother, Hyrum Smith, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, United...
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Emmett Till Antilynching Act (redirect from Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act)
Anti-Lynching Bill, 1918 Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, 2018 Lynching in the United States McDaniel, Eric; Moore, Elena (March 29, 2022). "Lynching is...
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F. Shipp and five others of Chattanooga, Tennessee, having "in effect aided and abetted" the lynching of Ed Johnson. They were held in contempt of court...
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Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, is a memorial to commemorate the black victims of lynching in the United...
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an African-American man named Wade Thomas was lynched in Jonesboro, Arkansas, by a white mob. The mob seized Thomas from the Jonesboro jail after he allegedly...
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turned over to a mob and burned at the stake. His lynching was covered by The New York Times and attracted national publicity. Henry Smith was a handyman in...
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and the subsequent lynching of his alleged murderers, Thomas Harold Thurmond and John M. Holmes, sparked widespread political debate. The lynchings were...
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instance of lynching of African-Americans in Minnesota. Twenty other lynchings were recorded in Minnesota, and included mainly Native Americans and Whites...
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James M. Ogden (section Early life and education)
investigation into an infamous lynching of two African American teenagers in Marion in 1930 (see Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith). Twelve white men were...
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