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A jury votes to hang a black man for robbery after being rushed by the judge to finish.

A black man, who brutally murders a white woman, is captured in Savannah and, while returning to South Carolina, is taken by an angry white mob and lynched.

A white man shoots a black man in the street on seemingly false allegations and he walks free.

The only black man in a town in Virginia received a note telling him “to leave town.” Later he was stopped by a local officer and arrested for carrying a gun.

A series of small groups of white people in Virginia have attacked black people at night. Ellen Elliot was killed and the killers were identified by a witness.

A young white girl and her mother accuse a black teenager they raised together of poison and rape, though he was only indicted for poison.

A white man stabs a “colored” man in the street.

A mob of 25 white men shoot a black man after they confront him and his white wife.

A deputy sheriff brutally parades a black criminal through the streets of Waynesborough, Mississippi.

A man shoots a black man, but later "looked into [his pistol] and accidentally discharged it," killing himself.