2 10 200 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Nathan Lyell Summary White judge advocates that African American defend themselves in the wake of injustice, saying “to the colored men, defend your race. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19010323.1.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Lynching Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound A mob of white men attacked a number of colored people at Emid, Oklahoma, March 14th, 1901, while they were innocently enjoying a cake-walk. The colored people were badly injured. Several white men and one colored man were arrested. The white jury discharged all the white men and was no doubt ready to punish the colored man. The outrage was so palpable and the injustice so scandalous that Federal Judge John L. McAteter discharged the colored man and administered the following stinging rebuke to the white jury: “I say to the colored men defend your race. If the laws are not sufficient, the God of nature has placed in your hearts the conscious right to protect yourselves, and while I sit on the bench, if white juries cannot reach white offenders, black men shall not be punished by me, if they defend themselves.” This language has the right ring to it, and is in keeping with the declarations which we have made in these columns from time to time. There are white men in the country who favor fair play and will back colored men in all legitimate efforts to protect themselves against the murderous elements, who now infest certain sections of this republic. A man who will not protect his own life and that of his family from outrage and murder is generally regarded as being himself unworthy of protection. Yes, we reiterate it: Ever colored man in the Southland should have a repeating rifle or a shot-gun in his cabin for hunting purposes, and he should possess the nerve to use it when lawless mobs infest the neighborhood and without the shadow of right seek to invade the sanctity of his home or violate the sacredness of his person upon the high-ways. Whether by his own efforts or those of his white neighbors, lynch law must go! Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 19010323-AJudge'sAdvice-Lyell Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1901-03-23 Title A name given to the resource A Judge’s Advice Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Liam Eynan Summary Lynchers attempt to kill prisoners while they are being transferred and are stopped by the jailer. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18961128.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Lynching Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Henderson, Kt., Nov. 15 - Prompt and vigorous action of the authorities saved three colored men from being lynched here yesterday. Dave Powell, Will Dixon, and Will Lowery were arrested before daylight this morning on the charge of having entered the store of Land & Metzner last night, holding up Louis Metzner and fatally shooting him four times. The leader of the robbers did all the shooting They were masked, and when the prisoners were taken from bed, pistols were found under their pillows. Four chambers of Powell's gun were empty. The citizens were excited, and threatened lynching, especially as there are four colored men in jail who participated in the murder of Officer White, at Owensboro. A big crowd surrounded the jail and Court house, openly threatening to take the prisoners from the officers as soon as an attempt was made to remove them to a safer place. The absence of a leader only prevented an attack on the jail. A strong escort of officers, under direction of the Sheriff, took the prisoners from the jail to the railroad depot. The mob, headed by John Borden, attempted to take the colored men from the officers, but Jailer Kohl knocked the leader down with a rifle, and the prisoners were landed on a Louisville & Nashville train without further resistance. Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Nov.docx Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1896-11-28 Title A name given to the resource A Kentucky Mob Balked Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Nathan Lyell Summary A white mob kills two African Americans in custody, despite the sheriff’s best efforts. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19010223.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Lynching Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Dade City, FLA., February 6.—Will Wright and Sam Williams, colored, charged with being implicated in the killing of Dan Childers and the wounding of J. B. McNeily, both white, at Rise and Phelps’s camp on January 26th, were killed in county jail by a mob of fifty or more men at a late hour last night. The mob first called upon Sheriff Griffith and demanded of him the keys to the jail. The Sheriff refused and stood firm through all efforts to intimidate him. The lynching party then moved towards the jail and succeeded in breaking through the outer walls but could not break through the steel cells. After exhausting every effort to do so they opened fire on the two prisoners from the outside through the steel bars. Williams was almost instantly killed and Wright was fatally wounded and died in a few hours. The coroner’s jury, at an investigation today, returned the verdict that the two men had been killed by parties unknown to the grand jury. Location Lower Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 19010223-LynchingInFlorida-Lyell Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1901-02-23 Title A name given to the resource A Lynching in Florida Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Cali Hughes Summary The Planet expresses sympathy for a lynched white man stating "we are much opposed to the lynching of white men as we are to the lynching of colored ones." Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18980702&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Lynching Times Repeated 1 Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound During the early morning hours, Monday, June 20th, a mob of white men broke open the jail at Hillsville, Va., and lynched a white man, named—Howlett. He was charged with killing another white man, Allen. This was a most cowardly affair, a disgrace to the commonwealth. All who participated in that lynching are guilty of murder and should be given the extreme penalty of the law. The sheriff should spare no pains, leave no stone unturned in bringing the guity parties to justice. We are much opposed to the lynching of white men as we are to the lynching of colored ones. Lynch-law must go! Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A Lynching in Virginia.= Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1898-07-02 Title A name given to the resource A Lynching in Virginia Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Liam Eynan Summary A mob stopped and lynched two black criminals who were on their way to being formally tried and sentenced. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18960201.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Lynching Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Memphis, Tenn. Jan. 8.- Harrison Fuller and Frank Simpson, two colored men who were to have been places on trial at Lexington, Tenn., to-day for an outrage upon Mrs. Pomeroy am her sixteen-year-old daughter, white were lynched last night. The outrage upon Mrs. Pomeroy am daughter occurred last August. Fuller and Simpson were arrested shortly afterward and positively identified b their victims. They were taken to Nashville for safe keeping, where they remained until yesterday morning The authorities supposed excitement at Lexington had subsided and the prisoners were accordingly returned for trial. When the train arrived at Lexington it was met by a strong mob, the sheriff overpowered and the prisoners secured. They were hustled into the woods some distance from the town, where fifty shots were fired into the body of each. Prior to the outrage upon Mrs. Pomeroy and daughter, Full and Simpson were guilty of a similar crime upon another white woman. Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context F1 2 articles.docx Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1896-02-01 Title A name given to the resource A Mob Lynched Them Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Cord Fox Summary A black man gathers a crowd of “minute men” to take a stand against a white mob looking for an unidentified black man. Item Type Letter to the Editor Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18950907.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Lynching Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Venna P.O. Prince Edward County Virginia – On Sundary, August 25th, gathered at Triumph Church, they were surprised at the appearance of a mob (white) which had surrounded the church and inquired for a colored man whose name we have not learned. They were informed of his whereabouts and hastened to a house on the road not far from the church. Mr. Stanup Dodson (Col.) a prominent teacher here who was at the church, no sooner heard of the search than he jumped into his buggy and spared not his horse in going to the above named house. Of course a large crowed of “minute men” followed him. They arrived at the house a few minutes after the mob which was standing at the gate. Mr. Dodson ordered his men to take a convenient position, at he same time declaring he would wade in blood to his shoulders before he would see one of his race suffer at the hands of a mob. The colored man was walking about in the house watching the gate. He had said the first white man entered it, would be his. The mob, seeing that to go in meant to shed blood on both sides turned from the gate and rode away declaring they were only joking. The “minute men” understood how it became a joke, as will the reader. Some days ago while this negro was coming home near Prospect Depot he saw a white man and a high toned white girl cohabiting, and being much surprised at the new couple, he made it known to some of his friends. When this news reached the ears of the whites, this poor negro-hater who being caught in the act, lost his rights as a citizen and should have been in the State’s service, was moved with anger and further violated the law by raising a half frightened mob of his like and kind and going to the church with the intention of saving his and the girl’s name by suspending the colored man from the limb of a convenient tree. The anger of the mob is very great and their revenge, it is thought does not stop here, but when all is quiet, will take the colored man and carry out their efforts. Signed F.T.R. Location Lower Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18950907-A Mob's Fury-Fox Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1895-09-07 Title A name given to the resource A Mob's Fury Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Carlos Serrano Summary A white man wearing black face attacks a white man in his home. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18940210&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Lynching Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound That Negroes have been hanged for crimes committed by white men with blackened faces hardly admits of a question. Here is a case in point demonstrating the depravity of some of the whites in the Southland: “Morgantown, GA, Jan 29 - U.P- A sensational story has been received from Union-co. Tax-collector Jones, who lives in the wilds of Cooper’s creek, returned, on Saturday, from a tour of the county, collecting taxes. In the evening, a peddler well known in that locality, stopped at his house, asked for lodging and was taken in. After supper Jones went out to look after his cattle. While he was gone, a disreputable looking Negro knocked at the front door, and when it was opened stuck two pistols into the faces of the peddler and Mrs. Jones. He first demanded the peddler’s money, and getting that made mrs. Jones bring the tax money. As he got it he turned out, when the peddler quickly drew a pistol and firing, stuck the robber in the head, killing him instantly. It was then discovered that the would be robber was none other than the tax collector himself, blacked up.” All that was necessary for this white man to do was to give some innocent Negro some article which he had secured when he made the robbery. This would have been regarded as sufficient evidence of guilt and the colored man no doubt would have been lynched without being allowed the privilege of even proving his innocence. Location Upper Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A Negro White Man Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1894-02-10 Title A name given to the resource A Negro White Man Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Carlos Serrano Summary Governor O'Ferrall pardons a lyncher, claiming his actions did not merit the punishment he had received, which was a year in jail. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18940210&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Lynching Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The action of Gov. Charles T. O’Ferrall in pardoning james B. Richardson, one of the Roanoke lynchers will neither merit nor receive public approval. This criminal was sentenced to twelve months in jail and fined one hundred dollars. The Governor reduces it to twenty-four hours in jail upon the condition that he pay the fine, The was the method in vogue during Gov. McKinney’s “reign” and we had hoped that the conditional pardon had gone never to return. It is alleged that the application for pardon was signed by four hundred “prominent citizens” of Roanoke. If there was ever a good reason for not pardoning the convicted criminal this was one. Here is a city where public sentiment was so treacherous that its patriotic mayor had to seek an asylum in another locality. The majority were in favor of the lawless, and yet these same citizens possibly some of them as guilty as this man Richardson sign a petition for pardon and it is favorably acted upon. It was openly declared by the press of the state that the punishment meted for the crime committed was entirely inadequate. The lynching and the storming of the jail at Roanoke last September were the most treasonable acts that have been committed in this state during this generation. It was an open defiance of the law and the only question which should have, in our judgement presented itself to our Chief Executive was whether or not Patterson was guilty or innocent. He was guilty of felony and should have been sentenced to the penitentiary. The jury virtually exercised the element which should have been left to the [unintelligent] when they made the punishment so light. There should have been nothing more done. We feel certain that lynchers all over the state will regard this official act as a condoning of the crime and believe that similar favors will be extended them should they be convicted of having been guilty of a similar crime. Lunch-law must go! Location Upper Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A Roanoke Lyncher Pardoned Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1894-02-10 Title A name given to the resource A Roanoke Lyncher Pardoned Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Rose Williams Summary For the first time in Mississippi history, white men are facing the court for “the lynching” of “Negroes”; the crime was committed because the black men disrespectfully addressed two white men by their first names. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19030214.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Lynching Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound A Southern Judge Commits Them Without Bail. Peculiar Conditions in Mississippi. A Graphic Description of Most Brutal Murders. Victims Had Committed No Crime. Liberal Minded White Men Indignant Over the Butchery. – Sad Times at Kociusko. What will the End Be. The New Orleans, La., Times-Democrat in its issue of Jan. 28, 1903, announced that white men faced a court of law at Kosciusko, Miss., for the lynching of Negroes for the first time in the history of Mississippi. It was a habeas corpus hearing before Judge W. F. Stephen in order to secure bail. The correspondent says: “The twelve men indicted for the lynching of the Negroes, Hallum and Moore and now in custody, show that they realize the gravity of the case. At first they were inclined to smile at the indictment as a mere form. Then the arrests and imprisonment followed, and the discomforts of the situation dawned upon them. They appeared in court and witnessed the vigorous fight made by the State’s representatives to remand them to prison without bail to await their trial. They found themselves face to face with the common fact that they were being prosecuted by able attorneys and learned the seriousness of the charge. This impression mirrored itself on their faces.” The white men charged with the crime are J. R. Tucker, J. E. Green, J. J. Green, G. M. Charleste, J. F. Whaitey, Lee Whaitey, Noah Lindsey, Aleck Kirk, Bill Goff, Oliver Wasson, and Shelly Burton. The following is the correspondence: Koscinsko, Miss., Jan. 27. – The simple story of the crime for which the twenty-eight men were indicted by the grand jury of Attala county sufficiently explains the acting of the body. Just about dusk of an evening in last July several negro women made their way to a clump of trees edging an old field. Before approaching too closely they reconnoitered. There was nothing in sight to frighten them. The field was bare of everything save dead stubble, and from the shadow of the trees came no sound. They plucked up their courage and began to scan the ground narrowly, as if in search of something lost. They found it. Without warning they came upon a horrible spectacle. At the foot of a small live oak tree lay two inanimate bodies. Both were bound as to wrists and ankles with trace-chains secured with padlocks. The chains were looped around the tree, evidently in the fear that the prisoners might escape. There was no danger of escape now. Clothing and bodies punctured with bullet holes and soaked with blood told the tale of how they came to their end. The women released the bodies from the chains that bound them even in death. They moaned after the manner in their race, giving vent to their grief in the monotonous chanting of sorrow that has an indescribable accent of weirdness. The bodies dislinked from the tree, they composed themselves as best they might. A wagon was summoned that had waited on the edge of the field. The two men were placed in it and taken to what they once called home. On the morrow they had their burials. It was the general opinion in the “Cross Roads” neighborhood of Attala county that this was the final scene of the tragedy. No one dreamed that anything could come of it. Those who had participated in the killing of the two Negro men slept peacefully and with clean consciences. They believed that they had put down a threatened uprising of the blacks in that district, and had set an example that would substantially curb the insolence of certain elements of the Negro population for some time to come. Had anyone suggested that there might be an epilogue to the tragedy he would have been regarded as an idle babbler. The people of the “Cross Roads” neighborhood knew a thing or two. And, besides, they were precedents. Cause of the Lynching Events the most spontaneous can usually, with a little investigation, be traced to definite causes. There was a chain of causes leading up to the gruesome spectacle in the clump of trees at the edge of the stubble field. On a certain morning before this, two young men of the district had met two Negroes as they went about their business. Greetings were exchanged. To the indignation of the two young white men, the Negroes addressed them by their given names. Promptly attention was called to this inexcusable breach of respect. The Negroes were in an ugly mood, and made an insolent answer. A quarrel ensued, but there was no breach of the peace. The two white men saw in the demeanor of the Negroes a portentous significance. They talked the matter over with a number of friends. All agreed that the temper that the Negroes had shown meant something. Had not a similar disposition been noted on the part of a good many other members of the race previous to this? Was there not a secret organization which held frequent meetings, for what purpose no one knew? Were not the white people likely to suffer seriously from any rising of the Negroes, even though, as a matter of course, the latter would be annihilated in the end?... Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 19030214-TwentyeightWhiteMenChargedWithLynching-Williams Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1903-02-14 Title A name given to the resource A Southern Judge Commits Them Without Bail Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Brian Schrott Summary After they rape a deaf and mute girl, two white men face "a mob of enraged men" and lynching. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18970821.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Lynching Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Louisville, Ky., August 6 – A Special to the Post from Barboursville, Ky., says: Jack Williams was caught in the mountains near Brush Creek and lynched last night by a mob of enraged men. He and his brother Tom were accused of raping a deaf mute named Viney Bays. Tom Williams was forced to marry his victim. He is now in jail here and there are threats of lynching him before tomorrow. The crime was a shocking one. The girl was brought into court today scantily clad and bare footed. She is in a serious mental and physical condition. There is much indignation. Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18970821-A White Man Commits the ‘Usual Crime’ Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1897-08-21 Title A name given to the resource A White Man Commits the ‘Usual Crime’