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Benjamin Thomas (1883/1884 – August 8, 1899) was a 16-year-old Black teenager who was lynched in Alexandria, Virginia on August 8, 1899. He had been arrested the day before and put into jail before a mob broke into the jail, dragging him outside, before beating him and ultimately he was hanged to death.
Kamala Harris presenting the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act in the Senate. The Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018 was a proposed bill to classify lynching (defined as bodily injury on the basis of perceived race, color, religion or nationality) a federal hate crime in the United States.
The People's Grocery lynchings of 1892 occurred on March 9, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, when black grocery owner Thomas Moss and two of his workers, Will Stewart and Calvin McDowell, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody. The lynchings occurred in the aftermath of a fight between whites and blacks and two subsequent shooting ...
Name Class year Notability References William Harwar Parker: 1848 Naval Academy Instructor and Professor of Mathematics, Navigation and Astronomy (1853–1857); served with the Virginia State Navy during the American Civil War, then the Confederacy and Confederate States Naval Academy by serving as its Superintendent from October 1863 on the school ship CSS Patrick Henry, located outside of ...
Benjamin Thomas may refer to: Benjamin Thomas (politician) (1813–1878), Massachusetts politician and judge Benjamin Thomas (industrialist) (1860–1914), American businessman and industrialist, founder of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company
John Thomas Lupton (1862–1933) was an American lawyer, industrialist and philanthropist who along with Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead, obtained exclusive rights from Asa Candler to bottle and sell Coca-Cola.
MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France (AP) — Benjamin Thomas knew exactly where he was in the middle of the finale of the multidiscipline omnium — on his back, watching everyone else go by him on the ...
Benjamin or Ben Evans may refer to: Benjamin F. Evans Jr., US Army major general; Benjamin F. Evans Sr., US Army major general; Benjamin Evans (Baptist minister) (1844–1900), Welsh clergyman and Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society; Benjamin Evans, Baron Evans of Hungershall (1899–1982), British academic; Benjamin Evans (minister ...