Jesse Washington was a seventeen-year-old African American farmhand who was lynched in the county seat of Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916, in what became...

pictures of the event offer rare imagery of a lynching in progress. He printed and sold images of Jesse Washington’s mutilated body as souvenir postcards...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on the May 1916 spectacle lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, known as the "Waco...

lynchings of black people in the United States. It was part of a decades-long anti-lynching campaign by the NAACP that began after the 1916 lynching of...

Man Who Fought the Klan, The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP, and debut novel, A Noble Cunning: The Countess...

from lynching and legal execution, while judicially flawed, demonstrated the effectiveness of the NAACP's anti-lynching campaign. Lynching of Jesse Washington...

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History of Lynching in America. Ivan R. Dee, Chicago 2011, ISBN 978-1-56663-802-9. Bernstein, Patricia, The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington...

members. An audience of 10,000, including the mayor and chief of police, was said to have attended the lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, in 1916...

role) as an activist recounting the lynching of Jesse Washington; according to Lee, he commanded his crew on the day of filming Belafonte's scene to dress...

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undertaker and burnt it in Waco's public square. The lynching of Jesse Thomas was the 10th lynching in 20-days in Texas and according to the United States...

Jesse Thornton was a 26 years old African-American man who was lynched in the town of Luverne, Alabama, on June 22, 1940. Thornton was lynched for allegedly...

woman begged the mob not to lynch Meadows, as she was unsure if he was the criminal, but the mob went forward with the lynching and killed him near the Pratt...

Nadir of American race relations Mass racial violence in the United States: War and Inter-War Period: 1914 - 1945 Lynching of Jesse Washington Notes Meyers...

article covered the lynching of Jesse Washington, a mentally impaired 17-year-old African American. Du Bois included photographs of it in the article....

against Civil Rights protesters. The lynching at the end of the story is a reference to the Lynching of Jesse Washington, in Waco Texas on May 15, 1916. Perhaps...

Ovington wrote that he spent half of his time with the committee. In the aftermath of the Lynching of Jesse Washington he worked with Elisabeth Freeman...

Belafonte's character Jerome Turner speaks about its role in the lynching of Jesse Washington as the modern Ku Klux Klan led by Grand Wizard David Duke (Topher...

implementation of various pseudoscientific theories and societal practices that purport to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest...

Texas on 15 May 1916. Jesse Washington, an African-American farmhand, after having been convicted of the rape and subsequent murder of a white woman, was...

Williams, of St. Louis, and Terrell Williams, a law school professor of Washington University in St. Louis. His grandfather, also Jesse Lynch Williams...

Black Buck was a racial slur used to describe a certain type of African American man in the post-Reconstruction United States. In particular, the caricature...

the cause célèbre of the nascent NAACP's anti-lynching campaign. In 2006, the Waco City Council officially condemned the lynching, which took place without...

local African-American community as divine retribution for the lynching of Jesse Washington over thirty years prior. Various Christian, Jewish and Muslim...

following sections", Disfranchisement, Encyclopedia of Virginia, 19 July 2016; accessed 17 March 2018 Lynching in America, 2nd edition Archived 2018-06-27 at...

Hippodrome Theatre opens. Kestner's store in business. 1916 – May 15: Lynching of Jesse Washington. 1919 – Elite Cafe in business. 1920 – Population: 38,500. 1922 –...

the lynching of Jesse Washington over thirty years prior. List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks List of tornadoes...

referenced the Lynching of Jesse Washington. Price lived in Waco as a child, possibly at the time of Washington's horrific death. Several versions of the song...