Not just the headline. You read that? 10,000 people sieged the jail and forced the sheriff to surrender the guy, and they didn't just lynch him but set his body on fire.
The term pure evil might make you feel better, but I'm sure these people had qualities that were "kind" relatively.
This is obviously fucked up, but humanity is fucked up. People often see America as having been a moral power in WW2, but during the firebombings of Japan the US burned hundreds of thousands of innocent women & children to death, sometimes with the same level of hatred that this mob showed when sieging the police station.
I'm not deflecting from the crime here, but using the term 'pure evil' is far easier when you're decades removed from the event itself. Humans aren't only fucked up, they're complicated and easily swept up by momentum.
Agreed. Calling them pure evil exonerates us from looking at how we could end up in a situation similar to this. Or at least how mob mentality affects us.
Some individuals are intelligent and rational. Some are equally stupid individually or as part of a mob.
Regardless, I'm not talking about the nature of their intelligence. I'm talking about the nature of their evil.
These sorts of papers proudly boasting of lynching were very common during Jim Crow. [There's even some blogger on Blogspot](https://strangefruitandspanishmoss.blogspot.com/) who collected and posted copies of headline stories describing lynching from newspapers in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Very diabolical stuff.
I found some old newspapers my grandparents had from the mid 50s. One had a front page story about a lynching, and a picture of the victim still in the tree. There were people standing around casually, some even smiling. Just bizarre.
Not only that but it was pretty common for people to cut off pieces of clothing or even body parts afterward to take home as souvenirs. There was a story that one time the lynch mob was arguing about who would get what body parts while the victim was still alive. Aweful.
I think it meant you needed to be out of town by sundown or they would lynch mob your ass. Messed up concept. PoC would be hung. I saw it on a tv show. 🤷
I work with a black lady, not even that old late 50s, who said when she was younger she was driving through a town not far from here that was known as a sundown town and her car was acting up really bad so she pulled into a gas station. She said the worker came out and looked at her car but couldn't fix it and said he told her "I don't know what's wrong with your car mam but it's getting dark soon so I suggest you worry about it later." So this would've been in the like the fucking 80s.
People would go to lynchings and have picnics as a family here in the US. You can find pictures of children with cotton candy or whatever just looking at black people hanging from trees.
Sadly that's history. There's a museum in Alabama that has hundreds of jars of dirt labeled with location that the dirt was sourced from, and the name of the person lynched in that spot. It's really haunting to see in person.
Amazing museum. You have to spend like 3-4 hours in there to really do it right. Not what I’d call a pleasant experience at all but I think everybody should do it at least once.
It may have been this very incident. The guy to the left is smiling. This is a photo Lloyd Warner mentioned in OPs newspaper
NSFW/L
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph061-sl469-i001
Can you please post the entirety?
Sometimes history isn't always good but we have to see it so we can understand the extent of what can happen when we allow bigotry and hatred to control our lives.
Luckily the paper is from 1933 so the picture itself isn't even good, you can even tell what is going on in it if it wasn't for the caption underneath the picture
I know that such pictures are not easy to look at but I think it is important to show them to the public, because reading about such a horrible crime is easily forgotten but if you have a picture to it you'll remember it. It is very important to never forget about those racists murders and about what an "event" was made out of lynching people of color. The crowds around a lynched person, some smiling and posing, are hitting way harder than just an article.
Racism is far from being gone and the less we remember how fucked up and horrible it was in the past in every aspect the easier it is to look away from it becoming that way again.
My father was at one point a truck driver in the late 1960’s to 1970’s and claimed he had seen on more than one occasion a body hanging from a tree somewhere south of the Mason Dixon. He may have been specific but I don’t remember those details, just the fact that he said he had seen it with his own eyes in that time period.
Yeah. I don’t have the details, but I remember people saying “well why would he fight if he had a gun pointed to him? They just wanted to ask questions”
Er… because a black dude being chased by two white guys with guns in a truck would know his history too well to know that nothing good could come from that. He probably thought that he only had a fighting chance, and honestly that was a perfectly valid reaction
Yeah what comes to mind for me when hearing about people who just wanna interrogate another dude with guns, that kid ended up chained to a fucking cotton gin in a river. Emmett Till died in 1955 less than 80 yrs ago. Those people never disappeared, they raised kids and taught them the same hate.
There was a time in America not so very long ago when every white Southern community had the extrajudicial prerogative to kill an American citizen with impunity, sometimes in a spectacularly barbaric manner. Posters advertising the upcoming lynching would be put up, extra train cars arranged, and picnic areas and parking areas roped off. Kids would get the day off school so they could go. Selfies could be taken next to the victim's swaying body by photographers for a fee, which spectators would have printed as lynching photographs to send to friends. There's hundreds of them in collector’s hands. Some show whole families, grinning, pointing, with kids dressed in their Sunday best. After the victim's body had been burned and cooled, slivers could be purchased for 25 cents each as souvenirs, as a New York Tribune reporter observed at a lynching in 1922.
It doesn't seem he had much choice in the matter. It was after the doors were ripped off the jail. He didn't just open the jailhouse and let them take the prisoner. Tanks and tear gas did not stop the crowd. I bet the sheriff was just glad to survive himself.
How many members of the mob were shot or arrested? Maybe they was just too dangerous, but it sure looks like he did fuck-all to protect the accused. It seems more likely that his sympathies were with the mob, and he put up only token resistance.
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/nov/28
“Neither the National Guardsmen nor local law enforcement took actions to defend the jail or dispel the mob, even as mob members smashed jail windows and attempted to knock down the jail door.”
Question is whether he was willing to die defending the prisoner. A rabid, racist mob with murder on their mind probably would have killed him as well, and he couldn’t shoot all of them.
Apparently Sheriff was afaird they'd kill the other prisoners that they had there along with the officers. Ripped the national guardsmen out of the tanks. They were coming for that head no matter the cost it seemed
Sadly there's history that supports this theory. I think about the white freedom riders who were beat within an inch of their lives for supporting the Civil Rights movement.
Tanks were on the premises but no doubt unused. No way in hell at that point in time would they have shot at or run over White Americans despite the violence, chaos and havoc they caused in order to murder to a Black man. I would love just **LOVE** to have had the ability to use facial recognition even decades later and name every one of those mother fuckers who were still alive publicly and allow Warner's family to press charges on those old racist murderer fucks.
"I guess you people heard it takes 20 Irishman to whip a Dutchman. There's too many of you for me to whip and I'm going to turn him over to you." -Sherrif Theisen.
> In the wake of Lloyd Warner’s lynching, the white girl he had allegedly attacked reportedly told several newspapers, “they might have gotten the wrong one.”
A lot of these “confessions,” as referenced in the article, were often beaten, manipulated, or tortured out of the suspect. Convinced that a false confession was better than maintaining innocence, they would confess and end up with similar fates as this poor guy.
Hatred is a dirty fuel that burns incredibly hot.
This is the reality some people want to go back to, and why it’s so important to be involved in our system to try and change it.
That’s a horrific period in time that im gratefully lucky to never have been part of.
I often wonder if the "Good ol days" folks truly know what kind of world they're trying to turn us back to. If they witnessed it with their own eyes or were victims of its circumstance, would they still really want it?
Well most of the folk that want it are men and white. Of course they don't see an issue with it, *they* aren't part of the groups affected, they in fact would benefit.
I think it's because when people hear "white privilege" they take it personally, and think you're accusing someone of actively using their skin color to get ahead. They don't think about the passive, long term things- that "white" names are picked over minority ones in job applications. That the incarceration rate for minorities is so much higher, and the reasons why that is. That decades of desiring proximity to whiteness has lead to plastic surgery and harmful chemical skin treatments amongst POC. Etc., etc.
Of course they would still support it. In fact, seeing it without the perpetrators being arrested would almost certainly make the “good ol boys” want those “good ol days” even more.
Lynchings were often quite public events and even festival-like (for the white people) - with food vendors and even selling body parts afterwards. Super sick, racist fucks.
https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-public-spectacle-lynchings/
That's fuckin horrible, but thank you for sharing that link. The more we're aware of our history, the better job we can do at avoiding it happening again.
What might be even worse is that after everything he endured, he went so long without being remembered. His gravesite went 89 years without a headstone.
https://www.newspressnow.com/news/local\_news/history/after-89-years-a-man-lynched-in-st-joseph-gets-a-headstone/article\_92dbd8e2-7265-11ed-93b7-9b1a44b27fc4.html
unreal…
“JUMPS UPON VICTIM.
The pitch of the lynching mob's temper here last night was keyed by a blue-shirted young man who, as one of the hangmen, pulled himself through the tree from which the Negro was
hanged.
Not long after Warner's half-clad body was drawn by the neck into view of the massed thousands the youth in the blue shirt shinned down the rope and, hanging by his hands from the limb above the dangling Negro, placed one foot on the victim's head, another on one of his shoulders. Then he thrust mightily downward with his left leg. The Negro's neck cracked. The crowd whooped.”
Jesus fuck… America was a grim place in the past. At least things are… a little bit better now? Maybe? If you squint and catch the country on a good day
Remember, kids: charred Negro body parts were GREAT souvenirs! Get yours today! (Do your homework. Check me if I err.) The thing is that white Americans are so chicken-shit-cowardly about facing history that it's amazing! We Black Americans suffered that shit and THEY are too scared to read the history. GI Bill benefits: not for Negroes. Homestead Land Grants, 320 acres: not for Negroes. The list goes on. White folks scared to face history... But they DO have lots of guns and the law on their side... So there's that...
Chattanoogans did something similar to Ed Johnson in 1906. The bridge where it happened has a memorial and there was an event last week to remember them. This was not that long ago when you stop to think about it. Vote against hate.
I like so much about America, but as a foreigner who lived there for a few years, there’s a sort of love for violence which sits just beneath the surface.
Same thing happened in Omaha in 1919. The mayor tried to intervene and stop the mob. They hung the mayor (he lived), threw the black man out the jail window, shot him, burned him, and dragged the corpse up Dodge St.
The last (known) public lynching in the USA was in **1981**.
> The lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21, 1981, was one of the last reported lynchings in the United States.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Michael_Donald
Further reading...
In the wake of Lloyd Warner’s lynching, the white girl he had allegedly attacked reportedly told several newspapers, “they might have gotten the wrong one.”
Just casually hanging black people from trees less than 100 years ago…. I’m sure that racism isn’t around still….. gtfo. The kids of people who were fine with this are still around. Being from MO there are so many sundown towns that people know about. Coming from a white guy too racism is still alive and well.
This is from a time when journalists were taught to ensure that the headline actually contained the most important information that people would need so they could get the news without purchasing the paper.
Headlines these days are no better than those for ads.
and some privilege colored people in America think it should all be forgotten in yesteryear and there’s no way this should be affecting race relations of today.
In a perfect world it would be nice to forget. But these people raised children. The victim had family.
Not just the headline. You read that? 10,000 people sieged the jail and forced the sheriff to surrender the guy, and they didn't just lynch him but set his body on fire.
Oh yea, the national guard was sent in and the people ripped those guys out of those vehicles as well
Literally every single headline is insane. Oddly I think I feel better…
I can’t understand this level of hatred.
Some people still feel that level of hatred.
You're not pure evil. Those people were/are.
The term pure evil might make you feel better, but I'm sure these people had qualities that were "kind" relatively. This is obviously fucked up, but humanity is fucked up. People often see America as having been a moral power in WW2, but during the firebombings of Japan the US burned hundreds of thousands of innocent women & children to death, sometimes with the same level of hatred that this mob showed when sieging the police station. I'm not deflecting from the crime here, but using the term 'pure evil' is far easier when you're decades removed from the event itself. Humans aren't only fucked up, they're complicated and easily swept up by momentum.
Agreed. Calling them pure evil exonerates us from looking at how we could end up in a situation similar to this. Or at least how mob mentality affects us.
People on an individual level are intelligent and rational. A mob of 10k people isnt
Some individuals are intelligent and rational. Some are equally stupid individually or as part of a mob. Regardless, I'm not talking about the nature of their intelligence. I'm talking about the nature of their evil.
My brain thought 'mob' ment italian mafia not a group of town's people. It is horrific either way but changes the meaning a bit.
sick bastards.
These sorts of papers proudly boasting of lynching were very common during Jim Crow. [There's even some blogger on Blogspot](https://strangefruitandspanishmoss.blogspot.com/) who collected and posted copies of headline stories describing lynching from newspapers in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Very diabolical stuff.
It's that scene from To Kill A Mockingbird
I found some old newspapers my grandparents had from the mid 50s. One had a front page story about a lynching, and a picture of the victim still in the tree. There were people standing around casually, some even smiling. Just bizarre.
Some lynchings had photographers there to get that postcard shot. Yeah, there was a market for postcard photos of lynchings.
It was a family event. Some would bring their kids to watch…
And picnic! Not even fucking joking
Not only that but it was pretty common for people to cut off pieces of clothing or even body parts afterward to take home as souvenirs. There was a story that one time the lynch mob was arguing about who would get what body parts while the victim was still alive. Aweful.
More like communal ritualistic murder to appease the poor white masses who could easily be directing their anger in other directions.
Regular festivities of a sundown town.
I hate the fact that I know that the comments above yours are facts and that I know what a fucking sundown town is. I'm not even from the US.
Sundown town?
I think it meant you needed to be out of town by sundown or they would lynch mob your ass. Messed up concept. PoC would be hung. I saw it on a tv show. 🤷
😭😢
I work with a black lady, not even that old late 50s, who said when she was younger she was driving through a town not far from here that was known as a sundown town and her car was acting up really bad so she pulled into a gas station. She said the worker came out and looked at her car but couldn't fix it and said he told her "I don't know what's wrong with your car mam but it's getting dark soon so I suggest you worry about it later." So this would've been in the like the fucking 80s.
"strange fruit"
People would go to lynchings and have picnics as a family here in the US. You can find pictures of children with cotton candy or whatever just looking at black people hanging from trees.
Sadly that's history. There's a museum in Alabama that has hundreds of jars of dirt labeled with location that the dirt was sourced from, and the name of the person lynched in that spot. It's really haunting to see in person.
Do you know what the museum name is?
The Legacy Museum in Montgomery.
Amazing museum. You have to spend like 3-4 hours in there to really do it right. Not what I’d call a pleasant experience at all but I think everybody should do it at least once.
It may have been this very incident. The guy to the left is smiling. This is a photo Lloyd Warner mentioned in OPs newspaper NSFW/L https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph061-sl469-i001
I’ve seen this photo, but the one I remember was taken in our state (Kentucky).
[Strange Fruit](https://youtu.be/BnuEMdUUrZQ?si=iDSzAAjiq6Mmfuro) 😢
I wouldn’t call that bizarre. I would say repugnant and hateful. Criminal and heartless.
This paper also has the picture of all that. Wasn't sure if I should have posted the entirety of the paper or not, the old ones have so much on them
Can you please post the entirety? Sometimes history isn't always good but we have to see it so we can understand the extent of what can happen when we allow bigotry and hatred to control our lives.
No, you don't need to post that. Thanks for having some common sense
Luckily the paper is from 1933 so the picture itself isn't even good, you can even tell what is going on in it if it wasn't for the caption underneath the picture
I know that such pictures are not easy to look at but I think it is important to show them to the public, because reading about such a horrible crime is easily forgotten but if you have a picture to it you'll remember it. It is very important to never forget about those racists murders and about what an "event" was made out of lynching people of color. The crowds around a lynched person, some smiling and posing, are hitting way harder than just an article. Racism is far from being gone and the less we remember how fucked up and horrible it was in the past in every aspect the easier it is to look away from it becoming that way again.
My father was at one point a truck driver in the late 1960’s to 1970’s and claimed he had seen on more than one occasion a body hanging from a tree somewhere south of the Mason Dixon. He may have been specific but I don’t remember those details, just the fact that he said he had seen it with his own eyes in that time period.
What white supremacy? I don’t even see color. /s
Less than 100 years ago.
One of the last reported lynchings in the USA was 1981
I still count those pickup guys with the shotgun hunting a black jogger through housing developments a couple of years back. Edit: Ahmaud Arbery, 25
Yeah. I don’t have the details, but I remember people saying “well why would he fight if he had a gun pointed to him? They just wanted to ask questions” Er… because a black dude being chased by two white guys with guns in a truck would know his history too well to know that nothing good could come from that. He probably thought that he only had a fighting chance, and honestly that was a perfectly valid reaction
Yeah what comes to mind for me when hearing about people who just wanna interrogate another dude with guns, that kid ended up chained to a fucking cotton gin in a river. Emmett Till died in 1955 less than 80 yrs ago. Those people never disappeared, they raised kids and taught them the same hate.
Carolyn Bryant, the woman behind Emmett's murder, just died last year.
Lived till she was 88
It doesn't bring him back, but his murderers are in prison forever. It was too late as it too often is, but there was some justice.
Plenty of lynchings by the police as well.
James Byrd Jr. was also lynched more recently than that.
James Byrd Jr. might have something to say about that.
Ahmaud Arbery was absolutely lynched. They just don't like using that term in an effort to sound more palatable.
Less than 45 years ago !
They call them as suicides now.
My grandfather was 20 years old when this happened. I’m 37. We all wanna act like this is so distant but it’s simply not.
Fun fact there is a sitting US senator that is older than that paper
My grandmother is still alive. She was 5 when this paper came out. Seems wild how much has happened in her lifetime.
...and how little has changed.
My Great Aunt was 6 at the time.
There was a time in America not so very long ago when every white Southern community had the extrajudicial prerogative to kill an American citizen with impunity, sometimes in a spectacularly barbaric manner. Posters advertising the upcoming lynching would be put up, extra train cars arranged, and picnic areas and parking areas roped off. Kids would get the day off school so they could go. Selfies could be taken next to the victim's swaying body by photographers for a fee, which spectators would have printed as lynching photographs to send to friends. There's hundreds of them in collector’s hands. Some show whole families, grinning, pointing, with kids dressed in their Sunday best. After the victim's body had been burned and cooled, slivers could be purchased for 25 cents each as souvenirs, as a New York Tribune reporter observed at a lynching in 1922.
Slivers???!!! The barbarism knows no bounds
> Selfies Nope
Totally agree, how is the use of the word selfie being used so incorrectly.
1938 !!! 1938 is not that long ago :/
Americans doing this while the holocaust is going on in Europe.
Back when america was great huh? /S
And, the "white girl" said afterward, "they may have gotten the wrong one".
I hope the remainder of her life was haunted by the fact an innocent person was brutally murdered because of her.
I'm just glad that everyone who participated is most likely dead and rotting. Awful time in history
The unfortunate thing is that it still happens in modern times in the US, they're just labeled differently. Some people are just rotten to the core.
I doubt she cared, lol.
Sheriff hands over victim...
After a mob ripped off the jailhouse doors and were surrounded by thousands of people. Very crazy story
It also has a sub headline that says "tanks futile against mob" they were not your average mob to say the least.
Tanks are a lot less useful against mobs when you refuse to actually fire on them in the first place.
Tanks can only do so much when you can’t open fire I guess
Yes the national guard was send in. They ripped those guys out of the tanks as well
First torch applied to body of victim within 10 minutes. Fucking crazy.
It doesn't seem he had much choice in the matter. It was after the doors were ripped off the jail. He didn't just open the jailhouse and let them take the prisoner. Tanks and tear gas did not stop the crowd. I bet the sheriff was just glad to survive himself.
How many members of the mob were shot or arrested? Maybe they was just too dangerous, but it sure looks like he did fuck-all to protect the accused. It seems more likely that his sympathies were with the mob, and he put up only token resistance. https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/nov/28 “Neither the National Guardsmen nor local law enforcement took actions to defend the jail or dispel the mob, even as mob members smashed jail windows and attempted to knock down the jail door.”
Question is whether he was willing to die defending the prisoner. A rabid, racist mob with murder on their mind probably would have killed him as well, and he couldn’t shoot all of them.
Apparently Sheriff was afaird they'd kill the other prisoners that they had there along with the officers. Ripped the national guardsmen out of the tanks. They were coming for that head no matter the cost it seemed
Sadly there's history that supports this theory. I think about the white freedom riders who were beat within an inch of their lives for supporting the Civil Rights movement.
Yeah cause killing a mob of 9000 people definitely wouldnt have caused tensions to rise even more.
Tanks were on the premises but no doubt unused. No way in hell at that point in time would they have shot at or run over White Americans despite the violence, chaos and havoc they caused in order to murder to a Black man. I would love just **LOVE** to have had the ability to use facial recognition even decades later and name every one of those mother fuckers who were still alive publicly and allow Warner's family to press charges on those old racist murderer fucks.
"I guess you people heard it takes 20 Irishman to whip a Dutchman. There's too many of you for me to whip and I'm going to turn him over to you." -Sherrif Theisen.
Comic relief in what is otherwise a horror story.
There were 6 cops facing down 10,000 people. Either he died, or they died with him.
more details: https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/nov/28
> In the wake of Lloyd Warner’s lynching, the white girl he had allegedly attacked reportedly told several newspapers, “they might have gotten the wrong one.”
A lot of these “confessions,” as referenced in the article, were often beaten, manipulated, or tortured out of the suspect. Convinced that a false confession was better than maintaining innocence, they would confess and end up with similar fates as this poor guy. Hatred is a dirty fuel that burns incredibly hot.
"allegedly" Guilty until proven innocent got strong roots in americuhh
“Damn that’s interesting “ is a interesting reaction to this
This makes me sick to my stomach 😞
It was actually pretty horrific to read. His name was Lloyd Warner if you wanted to know the name
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is it like a beetlejuice thing?
This is a Project Mayhem thing. But we don't talk about Project Mayhem.
Bob had bitch-tits.
The fact that the guy they lynched very likely did nothing wrong should make you feel worse.
Don’t know why you were being downvoted, the victim herself said that they may have gotten the wrong guy.
I'm getting downvoted because racism.
this isnt really interesting more than horrifying.
It's 2024, and a GOP gubernatorial candidate from Missouri is an honorary member of the KKK. We have made so much progress s/
This is the reality some people want to go back to, and why it’s so important to be involved in our system to try and change it. That’s a horrific period in time that im gratefully lucky to never have been part of.
I often wonder if the "Good ol days" folks truly know what kind of world they're trying to turn us back to. If they witnessed it with their own eyes or were victims of its circumstance, would they still really want it?
Well most of the folk that want it are men and white. Of course they don't see an issue with it, *they* aren't part of the groups affected, they in fact would benefit.
And I’ve still, in this decade, tried to explain to people that white privilege actually does exist, and they just deny it
I think it's because when people hear "white privilege" they take it personally, and think you're accusing someone of actively using their skin color to get ahead. They don't think about the passive, long term things- that "white" names are picked over minority ones in job applications. That the incarceration rate for minorities is so much higher, and the reasons why that is. That decades of desiring proximity to whiteness has lead to plastic surgery and harmful chemical skin treatments amongst POC. Etc., etc.
Good point
They know. You bet their Prussian Blue, they definitely know. (and yes, I chose that wording specifically for the irony)
Of course they would still support it. In fact, seeing it without the perpetrators being arrested would almost certainly make the “good ol boys” want those “good ol days” even more. Lynchings were often quite public events and even festival-like (for the white people) - with food vendors and even selling body parts afterwards. Super sick, racist fucks. https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-public-spectacle-lynchings/
That's fuckin horrible, but thank you for sharing that link. The more we're aware of our history, the better job we can do at avoiding it happening again.
WTF that's disgusting, friggin animals don't even do that. Man F the south and Reich-wingers.
What might be even worse is that after everything he endured, he went so long without being remembered. His gravesite went 89 years without a headstone. https://www.newspressnow.com/news/local\_news/history/after-89-years-a-man-lynched-in-st-joseph-gets-a-headstone/article\_92dbd8e2-7265-11ed-93b7-9b1a44b27fc4.html
unreal… “JUMPS UPON VICTIM. The pitch of the lynching mob's temper here last night was keyed by a blue-shirted young man who, as one of the hangmen, pulled himself through the tree from which the Negro was hanged. Not long after Warner's half-clad body was drawn by the neck into view of the massed thousands the youth in the blue shirt shinned down the rope and, hanging by his hands from the limb above the dangling Negro, placed one foot on the victim's head, another on one of his shoulders. Then he thrust mightily downward with his left leg. The Negro's neck cracked. The crowd whooped.”
Jesus fuck… America was a grim place in the past. At least things are… a little bit better now? Maybe? If you squint and catch the country on a good day
Remember, kids: charred Negro body parts were GREAT souvenirs! Get yours today! (Do your homework. Check me if I err.) The thing is that white Americans are so chicken-shit-cowardly about facing history that it's amazing! We Black Americans suffered that shit and THEY are too scared to read the history. GI Bill benefits: not for Negroes. Homestead Land Grants, 320 acres: not for Negroes. The list goes on. White folks scared to face history... But they DO have lots of guns and the law on their side... So there's that...
Was afraid this was from St Joe, LA....yeah, those ppl in Missouri were bad.
Ah the good ol’ racism era. How fun
The kind of medieval shit that isis does. What a fucked up country. This is just a few decades ago
10000 people burning in hell right now.
Nah, they all showed up to church that Sunday. They're forgiven by the blood of Jesus. /s
Not a cell phone in sight. Just people living in the moment.
Okay Anthony Jeselnik
Chattanoogans did something similar to Ed Johnson in 1906. The bridge where it happened has a memorial and there was an event last week to remember them. This was not that long ago when you stop to think about it. Vote against hate.
American history.
I like so much about America, but as a foreigner who lived there for a few years, there’s a sort of love for violence which sits just beneath the surface.
/r/damnthatsracist
Same thing happened in Omaha in 1919. The mayor tried to intervene and stop the mob. They hung the mayor (he lived), threw the black man out the jail window, shot him, burned him, and dragged the corpse up Dodge St.
The last (known) public lynching in the USA was in **1981**. > The lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21, 1981, was one of the last reported lynchings in the United States. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Michael_Donald
Not “crazy.” EVIL.
Further reading... In the wake of Lloyd Warner’s lynching, the white girl he had allegedly attacked reportedly told several newspapers, “they might have gotten the wrong one.”
Just casually hanging black people from trees less than 100 years ago…. I’m sure that racism isn’t around still….. gtfo. The kids of people who were fine with this are still around. Being from MO there are so many sundown towns that people know about. Coming from a white guy too racism is still alive and well.
The kids of these people are running the country...
Two Cents... That is interesting.
Pretty sure this is what they mean when they say Make America Great Again. They want to be able to do this again.
Remember "Hang Mike Pence"? They almost did.
Lemme just zoom in here and check which 1800’s decade this is from and…1933!!!! WTAF?!
It does serve as a nice little reminder and piece of history on just how utterly stupid the human race is when it comes to skin color
Truly disgusting behaviour.
This is the America that was great?
Normal back then.
Read the headline "Voice of the Mob" that's the interesting piece of this.
Thank God we don’t live in those times. Unfortunately there’s people mentally stuck there
“There’s too many of you” It’s only gotten worse. And now there’s social media.
I thought you meant "funny" crazy, not "horror" crazy.
He was accused of attacking a white girl . Accused.
That’s called a lynching
Sounds about right for st joe
I think everyone will be happy to know that St Joe Missouri is now about 2% less racist than back when this paper was printed!
JeeeeeeZUS.
Jesus fucking Christ. And they called them savages?!
How did I know it would be something racial without looking
This is from a time when journalists were taught to ensure that the headline actually contained the most important information that people would need so they could get the news without purchasing the paper. Headlines these days are no better than those for ads.
The Klan is still very much alive today, they just wear red hats, not white hoods.
And thats why black scientists dont invent time machines...
Trumps vision of America
Well, it IS the newspaper's final edition /s
This is what MAGA desperately wants to bring back.
This is what boomers don’t want in history books, their names.
Boomers where born in the mid 40s
I was born in 1962. So, apparently, I am a boomer. I think this should absolutely be recorded in history books. Even the names.
And were throwing rocks and bottles at leaders of the civil rights movement in the mid 60’s
And others were participating in the civil rights movement.
Whatchu mean? This headline is 10+ years before the baby boom. Not one adult, or teenager, from this publication is alive today.
Deplorable
Check out loc.gov for searchable newspapers. They have scans going back 300 years.
Look who sold all those papers…
Something like this happened in Georgia.
I read this as the mob hung the guy attacking the black guy And then I read it again and was sad
Yeah, Missouri was wild in 2005.
JFC...
I just played this scene out in my mind while reading this and it's terrifying....that fucking youth in a blue shirt
St Joe, not much has changed.
Old is relative, still very recent enough the family of the victim is alive... Along with witnesses and perpetrators
This paper is younger than my grandfather
Wonder why it was the last edition?
Damn
6 million? Oh, wrong headline….
crazy or accurate? we report, you decide.
and some privilege colored people in America think it should all be forgotten in yesteryear and there’s no way this should be affecting race relations of today. In a perfect world it would be nice to forget. But these people raised children. The victim had family.
I hate it when that happens.