The Waco Horror: Of The 492 Recorded Lynchings In Texas From 1882-1930, This Was Among The Most Horrific

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The Waco Horror: Of The 492 Recorded Lynchings In Texas From 1882-1930, This Was Among The Most Horrific

JESSE WASHINGTON LYNCHING. Of the 492 lynchings that occurred in Texas between 1882 and 1930, the incident that perhaps received the greatest notoriety, both statewide and nationally, was the mutilation and burning of an illiterate seventeen-year-old #black farmhand named Jesse Washington by a white mob in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916-an event sometimes dubbed […]

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