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It was the largest single mass lynching in American history. [1] [2] [note 1] Most of the lynching victims accused in the murder had been rounded up and charged due to their Italian ethnicity. [5] The lynching took place on March 14, the day after the trial of nine of the nineteen men indicted in Hennessy's murder.
According to Ida B. Wells and the Tuskegee University, most lynching victims were accused of murder or attempted murder. Rape or attempted rape was the second most common accusation; such accusations were often pretexts for lynching black people who violated Jim Crow etiquette or engaged in economic competition with white people .
Found complete laceration of the perineum, extending an inch and a half up the rectum. The posterior part of the vagina ruptured, connecting the abdominal cavity with the vagina, parts bruised and mutilated, unmistakable evidence of rape, hair from the mons-veneris of the negro being found on the pudendum of the baby, held by the clotted blood.
Filmore Watt Daniels [sic] and Thomas F. Richards [sic] were lynched near Mer Rouge, Louisiana, United States, by black robed Ku Klux Klan members on August 24, 1922. . According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary they were the 47th and 48th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United St
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The discovery of a black man found hanged from a tree in Mississippi quickly made national headlines and brought back some unpleasant memories of American's violent, racially charged past. "Otis ...
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