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PrintedasacommunityservicebyDr.DanielMeaders,ProfessorofHistoryatWilliamPattersonUniversity,andauthorofseveralbooksandarticles,includingDeadorAlive,FugitiveSlavesandWhiteIndenturedServantsBefore1800(GarlandPress,1993)
JennieSteersOnJuly25,1903amoblynchedJennieSteersontheBeardPlantationinLouisianaforsupposedlygivingawhiteteenager,16year-oldElizabethDolan,aglassofpoisonedlemonade.Beforetheykilledher,themobtriedtoforcehertoconfessbutsherefusedandwashanged.(100YearsatLynching.RalphGinzburg)
LauraNelsonLauraNelsonwaslynchedonMay23,1911InOkemah,Okluskee,Oklahoma.HerfifteenyearoldsonwasalsolynchedatthesametimebutIcouldnotfindaphotoofherson.ThephotographofNelsonwasdrawnfromapostcard.Authoritiesaccusedherofkillingadeputysheriffwhosupposedlystumbledonsomestolengoodsinherhouse.Whytheylynchedherchildisamystery.ThemobrapedanddraggedNelsonsixmilestotheCanadianRiverandhangedherfromabridge.(NAACP:OneHundredYearsofLynchingintheUS1889-1918)
MarieScottMarch31,1914,awhitemobofatleastadozenmales,yankedseventeenyear-oldMarieScottfromjail,threwaropeoverherheadasshescreamedandhangedherfromatelephonepoleinWagonerCounty,Oklahoma.WhathappenedTwodrunkenwhitemenbargedIntoherhouseasshewasdressing.Theylockedthemselvesinherroomandcriminally“assaulted”her.Herbrotherapparentlyheardherscreamsforhelp,kickeddownthedoor,killedoneassailantandfled.Someaccountsstatethattheassailantwasstabbed.FrustratedbytheirinabilitytolynchMarieScott’sbrotherthemoblynchedMarieScott.(Crisis1914and100YearsofLynching)
MaryTurner1918EightMonthsPregnantMobslynchedMaryTurneronMay17,1918inLowndesCounty.Georgiabecauseshevowedtohavethoseresponsibleforkillingherhusbandarrested.HerhusbandwasarrestedinconnectionwiththeshootingandkillingHamptonSmith,awhitefarmerforwhomthecouplehadworked,andwoundinghiswife.SidneyJohnson.aBlack,apparentlykilledSmithbecausehewastiredofthefarmer’sabuse.UnabletofindJohnson.thekillerslynchedeightotherBlacksIncludingHayesTurnerandhiswifeMary.ThemobhangedMarybyherfeet,pouredgasolineandoilonherandsetfiretoherbody.OnewhitemanslicedheropenandMrs.Turner’sbabytumbledtothegroundwitha“littlecry”andthemobstompedthebabytodeathandsprayedbulletsintoMaryTurner.(NAACP:ThirtyYearsofLynchingintheU.S.1889-1918)
HolbertBurntattheStakeLutherHolbert,aBlack,supposedlykilledJamesEastland,awealthyplanterandJohnCarr,anegro,wholivednearDoddsvilleMississippi.Afterahundredmilechaseoverfourdays,themobofmorethan1,000personscaughtLutherandhiswifeandtiedthembothtotrees.Theywereforcedtoholdouttheirhandswhileonefingeratatimewaschoppedoffandtheirearswerecutoff.Piecesofrawquiveringfleshwaspulledoutoftheirarms,legsandbodywithaborescrewandkeptforsouvenirs.Holbertwasbeatenandhisskullfractured.Aneyewasknockedoutwithastickandhungfromthesocket.(100YearsofLynchingbyRalphGinzburg)
Addendum===BelowarewomenwhowerelynchedinadditiontotheinitialfindingsofDr.DanielMeaders.Theycanbefoundinthepagesofthebook100YearsofLynchingbyRalphGinzburg.
MaeMurrayDorseyandDorothyMalcolmOnJuly25,1946,fouryoungAfricanAmericans—George&MaeMurrayDorseyandRoger&DorothyMalcom—wereshothundredsoftimesby12to15unmaskedwhitemeninbroaddaylightattheMoore’sFordbridgespanningtheApalacheeRiver,60mileseastofAtlanta,Georgia.Thesekillings,forwhichnoonewaseverprosecuted,enragedPresidentHarryTrumanandledtohistoricchanges,butwerequicklyforgotteninOconeeandWaltonCountieswheretheyoccurred.Noonewaseverbroughttojusticeforthecrime.
SullivanCoupleHungasDeputySheriffandPosseWatchFredSullivanandhiswifewerehangedafterbeingaccusedofburningabarnonaplantationnearByhalia,MississippiNovember25,1914.Thedeputysheriffandhispossewereforcedtowatchtheproceedings.
5HangedonOneOakTreeThreemenandtwowomenweretakenfromthejailinNewberry,FloridaonAugust19,1916andhangedbyamob.AnothermanwasshotbydeputysheriffsnearJonesville,Florida.AllthiswastheresultofthekillingthedaypriorofConstableS.G.WynneandtheshootingofDr.L.G.HarrisbyBoiseyLong.ThosewhowerelynchedhadbeenaccusedofaidingLonginhisescape.
MaryConleyAfterSamConleyhadbeenreprimandedbyE.M.MelvinnearArlington,Georgia,hismotherMaryintervenedtoexpressherresentment.AfterMelvinslappedandgrappledwithher,SamConleystruckMelvinontheheadwithanironscaleweight,resultinginhisdeathshortlyafterward.AlthoughSamescaped,hismotherwascapturedandjailed.ShewastakenfromthejailatLearyandherbodywasriddledwithbullets.HerremainswerefoundalongtheroadsidebypartiesenteringintoArlingtonthenextmorning.
Anewageisdawning.Melaninisworthover$350agrammorethangold.TheRed,BlackandGreenflagwillbeginits2ndcenturyonAugust13,2020andMarcusGarveysaid,"Wearegoingtoemancipateourselvesfrommentalslavery,forthoughothersmayfreethebody,nonebutourselvescanfreethemind."
Anewageisdawning.Melaninisworthover$350agrammorethangold.TheRed,BlackandGreenbeginsits2ndcenturyonAugust13,2020andweknownowMarcusGarveysaid,"Wearegoingtoemancipateourselvesfrommentalslavery,forthoughothersmayfreethebody,nonebutourselvescanfreethemind.