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By Kerry Segrave
Among 1850 and 1950, a minimum of a hundred and fifteen girls have been lynched via mobs within the usa. the vast majority of those girls have been black. This publication examines the phenomenon of the lynching of girls, a way more infrequent occurence than the lynching of guys. Over an analogous hundred yr interval coated during this textual content, greater than 1,000 white males have been lynched, whereas millions of black males have been murdered through mobs. Of specific significance during this exam is the function of race in lynching, quite the rise within the variety of lynchings of black girls because the century advanced. information are provided--when available--in an try to shine a gentle in this type of lethal mob violence.
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1. ” Galveston Daily News, October 23, 1884, p. 1. Eliza Taylor (white) 1885 March 15 • Spring Ranch, Clay County, Nebraska • Lynched with: Thomas Jones (brother, white) On January 8, 1885, six miles southwest of Fairfield, Nebraska, a man named Edwin Roberts was killed by someone and suspicion fell upon the two sons of Eliza Taylor. Some two months later the boys were still confined to the county jail, awaiting trial. Eliza Taylor and her brother Thomas Jones were suspected of being accessories in the killing of Roberts, as well as being suspected of having committed many other crimes that had occurred in the neighborhood over the previous 10 years.
Soon, though, the county people in the vicinity began to say strange things about the girl, Mary. She was described as a bright, quick girl of 20 [making it around 1871], with light hair, light blue eyes, and a little above medium in size. “No man for miles around could outlift her. With gun or pistol she was a dead shot. On horseback there wasn’t a boy in the county who could ride faster over rougher country, or who dared to commit half the dare-devil pranks that Mary constantly delighted in,” went the story.
According to a report, the couple had invited Jones to tea and while he was eating Jones was seized with the symptoms of arsenic poisoning. Shortly thereafter he died. Motive for the murder was thought to have been a desire on the part of the Frenches to obtain possession of some of the property owned by Jones. ” And, apparently, no steps ever were taken. ” Petersburg Index and Appeal [Virginia], May 6, 1876, p. 1. ” Logansport Weekly Journal [Indiana], May 13, 1876, p. 1. Charlotte Harris (black) 1878 March 11 • Rockingham County, Virginia One of the first lynchings of a woman to draw editorial attention was the case of Charlotte Harris in 1878.