Good Morning POU! This has been a painful series, but it is important to know the names and faces of victims of such horrific actions only because of the color of their skin. We can never forget. Matthew Williams was lynched on Friday, December 4, 1931 at 8:05 pm in Salisbury, Maryland located in Wicomico County on Maryland´s lower Eastern Shore. During the … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence
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Friday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence
On July 14, 1946, four African American sharecroppers were lynched at Moore’s Ford in northeast Georgia in an event now described as the “last mass lynching in America.” Yet the killers of George Dorsey, Mae Murray Dorsey, Roger Malcolm, and Dorothy Malcolm were never brought to justice. The violence and public outcry surrounding the event reflected growing African American … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence
Thursday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence
Mary Turner (died 19 May 1918) was a married black woman and mother of two who was lynched by a white mob in Lowndes County, Georgia, for having spoken out in protest at the lynching death of her husband Hazel "Hayes" Turner the day before. Her unborn child was also brutally murdered. The Turner murders followed the murder of a white plantation owner by one of his black workers … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence
Wednesday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence
By the end of the summer of 1945, World War II had come to an end. Over the next several months, many of the twelve million veterans returned home; 880,000 of these were black Americans. They had gone overseas to put their lives at risk in the fight for freedom and democracy, and they came home to find these ideals were not meant for them in their own … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence
Tuesday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence
The Groveland Four (or the Groveland Boys) were four young African-American men: Earnest Thomas, Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin, who were accused of raping a 17-year-old white woman in Lake County, Florida in 1948. Thomas was killed as a suspect by a posse after leaving the area; Greenlee, Shepherd and Irvin were beaten while in jail to coerce … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence