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The mob killed Walker by throwing him onto a makeshift funeral pyre. [9] After Walker's brutal murder, most of his remains were scavenged by souvenir hunters. Several members of the mob gathered some of his charred remains in a small box and dropped them off at the local hospital. On the box, there was a note that read: "Return to his friends ...
News of the shooting had quickly spread throughout the region and thousands began pouring into the downtown area. A mob of 6,000 people pushed their way into the funeral parlour where Jesse's body was sent after being killed by Sam Harris. The corpse was yanked out of the funeral parlour, tied to a truck and dragged through Waco on Franklin Ave.
McCoy's family refused to pay for a funeral, instead they wanted to put the cost on the city and state, as his aunt said upon viewing the body "as the people killed him, they will have to bury him." [ 2 ] [ 6 ] The funeral was held April 24 and the service was performed by Rev. William H. Gaines with about 25 black attendees and the exact time ...
Many black homes burned to discourage citizens from coming forward [388] Lynch, Jay: 28: White: Missouri: Barton: Missouri: May 28, 1919: Murder: Hanged. Walters, Lemuel: African American: Longview: Gregg: Texas: June 17, 1919: Making "indecent advances" to a white woman: The report of the affair and the subsequent coverup led to the Longview ...
Longview is a city in, and county seat of, Gregg County, Texas, United States. Longview is located in East Texas, where Interstate 20 and U.S. highways 80 and 259 converge just north of the Sabine River. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the city had a population of 81,638. [7]
The Longview metropolitan statistical area is a metropolitan area in Northeast Texas that covers four counties—Gregg, Harrison, Rusk, and Upshur. As of the 2010 census the MSA had a population of 280,000 (though a July 1, 2019 estimate placed the population at 286,657).
On March 19, 1906, Ed Johnson, a young African American man, was murdered by a lynch mob in his home town of Chattanooga, Tennessee.He had been wrongfully sentenced to death for the rape of Nevada Taylor, but Justice John Marshall Harlan of the United States Supreme Court had issued a stay of execution.
James Byrd Jr. was born on May 2, 1949, [11] in Beaumont, Texas, [12] the third of nine children, to Stella Mae Sharp and James Byrd Sr. [13] His mother was a Sunday School teacher and his father was a deacon at the Greater New Bethel Church.