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Box L.27

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Contains 116 Results:

Lynching Cases - North Dakota, 1931

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Named lynching victim is Charles Bannon (Schafer, 1931)

Dates: 1931

Lynching Cases - Ohio, 1932, 1937

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Named victim of lynching is Luke Murray (Ironton, 1932). Victim of attempted lynching is Lee Matthew (Dover, 1937).

Dates: 1932; 1937

Lynching Cases - Oklahoma, 1930, 1936

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Named lynching victim is Willie Jones (Altus, 1936). Named victims of attempted lynchings include Jesse Washington (Erick, 1930) and Olivia Garvin (Altus, 1936).

Dates: 1930; 1936

Lynching Cases - Oklahoma - Henry Argo (Chickasha), 1930

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Includes photograph of open jail cell.

Dates: 1930

Lynching Cases - Pennsylvania, 1933-1938

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Scope and Contents Named victims of attempted lynching include Horace Dorsey (Springfield, 1933) and James Ward (Coatesville, 1938). Includes articles regarding William Denston of Aardmore, PA, son of alleged victim of George Armwood, lynching victim in Maryland from 1934. Also includes article regarding mob killings of two white enslavers from Maryland, Edward Gorsuch (Christiana, 1851) and unnamed man (Carlisle, 1851), both of whom were in Pa. to search for formerly enslaved persons who had escaped to...
Dates: 1933-1938

Lynching Cases - South Carolina, 1930-1945

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Named lynching victims are Daniel Jenkins (Union, 1930), Henry Campbell (Mullins, 1932), Singleton (Aiken County, 1945, no first name reported). An attempted lynching of an unnamed person is reported to have taken place in Georgetown, 1940.

Dates: 1930-1945

Lynching Cases - South Carolina - Lowman Family (Aiken), 1926-1928

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Coverage of the 1926 lynching of Bertha Lowman, Demon Lowman, and Clarence Lowman of Aiken, South Carolina. Folder 1 contains small clippings and folder 2 contains full pages of The World from November 7, 1926 - December 4, 1926

Dates: 1926-1928