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Lynching and To Kill a Mockingbird

Lynching and To Kill a Mockingbird. Early 1900s. In the early 1900s, people collected postcards of people who were lynched.

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Lynching and To Kill a Mockingbird

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  1. LynchingandTo Kill a Mockingbird

  2. Early 1900s In the early 1900s, people collected postcards of people who were lynched.

  3. Printed inscription on border, "LYNCHING SCENE, DALLAS, MARCH 3, 1910".   Penciled inscription on border, "All OK and would like to get a post from you. Bill, This was some Raw Bunch."

  4. Would you send this postcard? Lynching of an unidentified African American male. Date and location unknown.  Tinted lithographed postcard. 5H x 3H". Printed in lower left corner: "Lynched." Copies of this card turn up frequently, testifying to their popularity.

  5. Duluth, MN 1920 Six black circus workers, alleged to have assaulted a young white girl on the circus grounds, were dragged from their cells in a Duluth, Minnesota, jail by a mob of five thousand people. Twelve policemen were injured during the attack. In an impromptu trial, three of the suspects were "found not guilty." The three "found guilty" were hanged. A subsequent investigation by the civic authorities proved that none of the murdered men could have participated in the assault.

  6. The Lynching of Laura and Lawrence Nelson Laura, her husband, her 15-year-old son Lawrence, and her baby were taken into custody after Lawrence shot and killed Okemah's deputy sheriff, George Loney, when Loney and a posse turned up at the Nelson's home to investigate the theft of a cow.

  7. The Lynching of Laura and Lawrence Nelson Cont… • Laura's husband pleaded guilty to the theft and was sent to the relative safety of the state prison. In an effort to save her son, Laura said she had fired the fatal shot. Both she and Lawrence were arrested, the son taken to the local jail and Laura to a cell in the courthouse.

  8. Three weeks later a mob of 40 armed white men arrived to kidnap them, tying up the guard and dragging off the mother and son. Hundreds of sightseers gathered on the bridge the following morning, and photographs of the bodies were sold as postcards. The killers were never identified.

  9. The lynching of Rubin Stacy according to the New York Times… July 19, 1935 • Rubin Stacy was hanged on a roadside tree within sight of the home of Marion Jones, 30 • Jones identified Stacy as her “assailant”

  10. The Lynching of Rubin Stacy Cont…. • 6 deputies were escorting Stacy to a Dade County jail in Miami when they were over powered by approximately 100 masked men who ran their car off the road • He was shot before and after he was hanged

  11. The Lynching of Rubin Stacy Cont… • Further investigation revealed that Stacy, a homeless tenant farmer had gone to the house to ask for food; the woman became frightened and screamed when she saw Stacy’s face

  12. 1955 - The lynching that began the civil rights movement.

  13. The Lynching of Emmett Till Cont… • On August 24, Emmett Till and a few boys drove Wright's car into the small town of Money, MI and stopped at Bryant's Grocery store to buy some candy.  Prior to entering the store, Till pulled out some pictures of his white friends in Chicago, and showed them to some local boys outside of the store. 

  14. The Lynching of Emmett Till Cont… • The boys dared Till to talk to Carolyn Bryant, the store clerk.  Till went into the store, purchased some candy, and what happened as he was leaving is unclear.  Till either said, "Bye, baby" or he whistled at Carolyn Bryant.

  15. The lynching of Emmett Till Cont… • He was murdered days later by the woman’s husband and friend.

  16. The trial lasted five days.    The jury deliberated for 67 minutes, which according to one juror, was only because they stopped to drink soda.  The jury found Milam and Bryant not guilty.  The jury concluded that the prosecution had failed to prove that the body recovered from the river was Emmett Till.

  17. They confessed, but what happened? On January 24, 1956, Look magazine published the confession of Milam and Bryant, who had agreed to tell their story for $4,000.  According to their confession, they beat Till with a .45 in Milam's barn.  They then put him back in the truck and took him to the Tallahatchie River where they had him undress and then shot him.  They then tied a gin fan around his neck with wire in order to weigh the body down.  Then they proceeded to burn Till's clothes and shoes.  Milam and Bryant were never charged with other crimes for murdering Till. They both lived until their 80s.

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