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    following the lynching, Sheriff Shipp explicitly blamed Ed Johnson's death on the Supreme Court's interference. As a result, the lynching of Ed Johnson led to...
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  • maker E. A. Johnson, Canadian plant ecologist Ed Johnson (1882–1906), American lynch-mob victim, see Lynching of Ed Johnson Ed L. Johnson, American martial...
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  • United States v. Shipp (category Lynching deaths in Tennessee)
    Tennessee, having "in effect aided and abetted" the lynching of Ed Johnson. They were held in contempt of court and sentenced to imprisonment. It remains...
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    related to Lynchings. Wikiquote has quotations related to Lynching. Look up lynching in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Interactive map of lynchings in the...
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    victims of racial lynching, but in the American Southwest, Mexican Americans were also the targets of lynching as well. At the first recorded lynching, in...
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    providing rare imagery of a lynching in progress. The pictures were printed and sold as postcards in Waco. Although the lynching was supported by many...
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    Walnut Street Bridge (Chattanooga) (category Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee)
    (Tennessee). Lynching of Alfred Blount Lynching of Ed Johnson The 1907 Trial of Sheriff Joseph Shipp Walnut Street Bridge at Structurae Historic Bridges of Michigan...
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  • was then repeatedly shot. No one was ever convicted of her lynching. These lynchings are examples of the racially motivated mob violence by white people...
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    A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed...
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    Don Wayne Johnson (born December 15, 1949) is an American actor. He played the role of James "Sonny" Crockett in the 1980s television series Miami Vice...
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  • after the Alfred Blount lynching, Ed Johnson was hanged from the Walnut Street Bridge for an alleged attack on a woman. Ed Johnson, like Alfred Blount, was...
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    Moultrie and William Johnson. When he was 10, his older brother Willie was accused of killing a white man. Afraid of a possible lynch mob, his parents mortgaged...
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  • Population: 30,154. 1905 – Chattanooga Public Library opens. 1906 - Lynching of Ed Johnson 1909 – Hixson High School founded. 1910 - Population: 44,604. 1917...
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    list of lynching victims in the United States. While the definition has changed over time, lynching is often defined as the summary execution of one or...
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    federal Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, as Southern states did not prosecute perpetrators. He was a speaker at the 1919 National Conference on Lynching. Starting as...
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  • King Johnson was lynched December 26, 1911 in Brooklyn, Maryland. The lynching occurred after King Johnson shot and killed Frederick Schwab, a 29-year-old...
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  • and 1931. Blue-Eyed Black Boy is a 1930 lynching genre play written to convince Congress to pass anti-lynching laws. This lesser known play premiered in...
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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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    was intended to establish lynching as a federal crime. The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was re-introduced in subsequent sessions of United States Congress and...
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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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    The anti-lynching movement was an organized political movement in the United States that aimed to eradicate the practice of lynching. Lynching was used...
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    Ed and his son George Hartley were lynched in Camden, Benton County, Tennessee by a mob on October 20, 1922. According to the United States Senate Committee...
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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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  • lynch mob of about 100 white men from Jackson County heard where he was, and brought him back to Jackson County. The time and place of the lynching were...
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  • Stephanie (2018). "Stories of a lynching: Accounts of John Carter, 1927". In Lancaster, Guy (ed.). Bullets and Fire: Lynching and Authority in Arkansas...
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    and that Johnson "need[ed] some quick dramatic actions" that addressed "the issue of violence." In October, Johnson signed the Gun Control Act of 1968, but...
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    Jameson (Lynching of)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture. Retrieved November 4, 2019. McWhirter, Cameron (2011). Red Summer: The Summer of 1919...
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    as "the last lynching in California", although Clyde Johnson was lynched near Yreka in August 1935, and the last true California lynching is said to have...
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    Church in Newnan about the lynching. In his speech Rusk stated the Hose lynching was different from the Moore's Ford lynching as Hose had no descendants...
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    The lynching of Edward "Red" Roach was the extrajudicial killing of a 25-year-old Black man by a mob of White men in Roxboro, North Carolina, for allegedly...
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