Examples Of Lynching Cases

There are many cases in history where a black person has been framed or accused for a crime he/she did not commit, instead of having a fair trial, the accused one is lynched. One example of such lynching took place on August 7, 1930. Three African Americans named Thomas Shipp (19 years), Abram Smith (18 years) and James Cameron (16 years), were caught by the Ku Klux Klan in the town of Marion, Indiana. The three was accused of robbery and murder of a white factory worker named Claude Deeter and sexually assaulting his girlfriend. Both Shipp and Smith were taken to jail but were taken away by a lynch mob of whites. They were brutally beaten and were hanged from a oak tree. The youngest out of the three boys was let go, but was vigorously beaten.
During the night, the mob came to the courthouse and asked for Henry to be given to them. The National Guard was not properly equipped with a gun. The mob taking advantage used violence to make their way. Argo being on the second floor it was hard for the mob to get him. The next day, early morning one of the members of the mob climbed the walls and shot Argo in the head. The Sheriff arriving at the courthouse and seeing Argo dead, instead of calling the hospital or helping him, he lets the lynch mob come into the courthouse to see Argo’s body lying on the floor. The sharecropper himself George Skinner came into the courthouse and stabbed Argo in the chest. This shows the injustice done by the law itself. Rather than taking the kid to the hospital, he invites the lynch mob into the courthouse like a show and tell and lets him be stabbed to death. One of the most famous cases of lynching was of a 14 year old kid Emmett Till was running along, mumbling “Bye, Baby” and flirting with the general store’s wife. The next day, Till was taken from his house by a group of white men for “dishonoring” a white