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Laura Nelson
Laura Nelson beside her son L.W. (14) was lynched from a bridge over the Canadian River near Okemah. She was accused of shooting a police officer who was investigating she and her son for theft. -
Strange Fruit
Mary Turner, eight months pregnant, was burned, lynched and shot for speaking out after her husband had been killed in the same manner. Her baby was cut from her body, falling to the ground only to be smashed by one of the perpetrator's boots. She was buried with her child ten feet away from the murder scene. -
Invitation to the murder of John Hartfield
NAACP flyer published to protect others from John Hartfield's fate. -
Oklahoma Court House Lynching
Will Brown a 41 year old black man accused of assulting a white woman. Beat, Lynch, dragged by a truck and set on fire. -
Postcard
Postcards were used to boost racial killings and insert fear. -
"They Were Just Niggers"
"They Were Jest Niggers" written to tell the story of The Duluth lynchings of Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie after being accused of raping and robbing a white teenage girl. -
Rosewood
Image from "Rosewood" film. Rosewood, FL. was the site were a gang of over 200 white men set out on a murderous rampage as a result of Fanny Taylor, a white woman, being sexually assaulted by a black man allegedly. -
And the Angel Cry
Somewhere in Missippissi sometime between 1930-1960 -
Rubin Stacy
Rubin Stacy murdered for threatening and frightening a white woman. His body left hanging for others to see. -
Lint Shaw
Lint Shaw was murdered eight hours before he was to go on trial for attempted assault. -
Emmett Till
14 year old Emmett Till beaten, mutilated and drowned in Sumner Mississippi for flirting with a white woman, -
James Powell
Images after James Powell, 15 years old, was killed by a New York City police officer who claimed self defense. Witnessed said James was unarmed. -
Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton a Black Panther Leader was killed in his bed by Chicago Police while unarmed. -
Ron Settles
Jon Settles was arrested for speeding by the Signal Police Department in Long Beach, CA. He was later foung hanging by a bed sheet. Officers claimed he had commited suicide but later findings revealed he died from being placed in a choke hold. His family was awarded $31 million dollars, no one was ever convicted for his murder. -
Mark Clark and Fred Hampton
1.8 million dollars was awarded to the family of Mark Clark and Fred Hampton after their unjustified killings the Chicago Police officers in 1969. -
Location of James Byrd Jr. Murder
On June 7, 1998 James Byrd Jr. was chained to a truck by three white men, beaten and dragged to his death. This image marks the spot of where his body was found. -
Kenderick Johnson
Kenderick Johnson, a student at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia. His body was found rolled up in a wresting mat. After his death was ruled accidental his family solicited the help of a private investigator and received a second autopsy where evidence was found of unexplained apparent nonaccidental blunt force truma. After exhumed it was discovered that Kenderick's organs had been removed and his body was stuffed with newspaper. -
Otis James Byrd
The site of the mysterious hanging death of Otis James Byrd in Port Gibson, Mississippi. No evidence was found to pursue charges in Byrd's death. -
Charleston, SC
Members of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal murdered inside their church during bible study, victims of a hate crime.
