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After allegedly murdering two police officers, three black men are brutally beaten and lynched by a mob minutes after their trial ends.

The black residents of Hickory, Mississippi, are “terror stricken” and “shaking with fear” due to the brutal lynching of a man who committed a crime and three of his innocent friends.

A series of race riots in Springfield continue with the brutal lynching of William Donigan, a cobbler who was “respected as a simple and inoffensive citizen.”

500 foreigners are “invited” to watch Felix Radzius, a Polish man, get hanged for his murder of a woman and her child.

Four black men en route to jail are lynched by a mob due to suspicions of a crime.

A “colored” man survives hanging after being sentenced for an accidental shooting while attempting to escape from a factory.

A black man in Delaware is hanged after killing a black woman in a quarrel.

After confessing his crime, a mob takes Henry Davis, a black man, from an Annapolis prison and lynches him crying “Another white woman is avenged!”

Four white men lynch a black man in a “business like way” after the “town being quiet all day” following the man’s arrest.

In order to escape lynching for the second time, a boy is put in the “parish prison” for safety.