As Bloody As War

Item

Title
As Bloody As War
Source Type
Newspapers
Publisher
Afro-American Sentinel
Publication Place
Omaha, Nebraska
Publication Date
07/09/1898
Transcript
It would seem that the war with Spain would tend to allay race prejudice and bring closer together the races in the South. It has had an opposite tendency for the number of lynchings has been steadily on the increase... Sol. Jackson, colored, Lewis Speir, colored, Jesse Thompson, colored, Camp Reese, colored, charged with murder were lynched June 17th at Wetumpka, Ala.