Black History Month isn’t just about MLK and the civil rights
movement. It’s about remembering the horrible things that white people
did to black people through American history. Here’s a good post detailing the lynching of black women. Some examples for your Thursday:
Laura Nelson
Laura Nelson was lynched on May 23, 1911 In Okemah, Okluskee, Oklahoma.
Her fifteen year old son was also lynched at the same time but I could
not find a photo of her son. The photograph of Nelson was drawn from a
postcard. Authorities accused her of killing a deputy sheriff who
supposedly stumbled on some stolen goods in her house. Why they lynched
her child is a mystery. The mob raped and dragged Nelson six miles to
the Canadian River and hanged her from a bridge.(NAACP: One Hundred
Years of Lynching in the US 1889-1918 )
There are more. Lots more.
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