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White judge advocates that African American defend themselves in the wake of injustice, saying “to the colored men, defend your race.

Lynchers attempt to kill prisoners while they are being transferred and are stopped by the jailer.

A white mob kills two African Americans in custody, despite the sheriff’s best efforts.

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."

A mob stopped and lynched two black criminals who were on their way to being formally tried and sentenced.

A black man gathers a crowd of “minute men” to take a stand against a white mob looking for an unidentified black man.

A white man wearing black face attacks a white man in his home.

Governor O'Ferrall pardons a lyncher, claiming his actions did not merit the punishment he had received, which was a year in jail.

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.

After they rape a deaf and mute girl, two white men face "a mob of enraged men" and lynching.