Eventos
The Memphis Ledger for June 8, 1892 said the following about a teenage white girl who gave birth to a Negro child:Edward Coy was torched by his white sweetheart before a crowd of over 1000 people, in Texarkana, Arkansas on February 20, 1892In the winter in Baltimore, Md., (1891) three white men assaulted Miss Camphor, a young Afro-American girl, while out walking with a young man of her own race.In Nashville, Tenn., May 1891, a white man sexually assualted an Afro-American girl in a drug storeIda B. Wells research found statistics compiled by the Chicago Tribune, published on Jan 1, 1892 of the dark and bloody record of the South:The People’s Grocery Lynching, Memphis, Tennessee on March 9, 1892In Columbia, S.C., on October 7, 1892, 13 yr old Mildrey Brown was hanged on the gallows for allegedly poisoning a white infanta boy and a girl were lynched along with their father in November,1892, in Jonesville, Louisiana.February 7 1892, Hamp Biscoe, a farmer, and his family were killed in Keo (Lonoke County), Arkansas for refusing to give up his landHenry Smith, a Black laborer in Paris, Texas, accused of murder and rape of a 4 yr old girl was lynched on February 1, 1893Allen Butler, a wealthy colored man, near Vincennes, IN, hanged, while his son barely escaped the rope on July 13, 1893William Butler, killed for his stepfather's crime, the infamous Henry Smith, on Feb 6 1893 in Hickory Creek, TexasMeredith Lewis, lynched because the jury acquitted him, in Roseland, La., July 1892C.J. Miller, lynched as a scapegoat, in Bardwell, Kentucky, July 7, 1893April 6, 1892 a mob of 80 lynched Isaac Brandon right in front of his pleading little boy in Charles City, Virginia
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