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#34
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11-29-2015, 03:21 AM
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Re: The Lynching of Jesse Washington
The local papers were encouraging mob action before the jury selection...... I suppose that wouldn't prejudice the potential jury though How many blacks were on that jury again? A mob stormed the jail looking for him before the trial even began, it was pure luck that he wasn't in there or he would have been lynched before the trial even started. Go read, come back and tell me that this is a case of justice served. |
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11-29-2015, 10:21 AM
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Re: The Lynching of Jesse Washington
We once went to visit the father of this guy my parent's worked with that lived in the TN mountains. He had built it by hand from stones from the river. He was old and southern and showed us the photo of this black guy that was lynched. My sisters and I were mortified. I mean you see it books but an actual photo from a man who seems really nice. I never even asked what he did to get lynched. |