As Bloody As War

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.

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See all items with this valueSolomon Jackson

See all items with this valueLewis Spear