African American History Culture : Without Sancuary...A Story Book of Lynchings.

[Enki]

http://withoutsanctuary.org/movie1.html

I thought this would be good to post as it puts a face on what we went thru as a people, and for those that are younger than I that has not seen these images, but was only told about them.

In the movie, there is a 14yr old boy hanging from a bridge because Yt refused to pay him after working for him all day. So since his mother was hungry, he stole to feed here and they hung them both. Her on one side, and him on the other.

Peace!

 

[Enki]

Here is the main page, the main menu is on the lower right...check out the photos and the stories behind them.

http://withoutsanctuary.org/

Peace!

 

[Enki]

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-lynching7.html

While Laura and her son awaited their trials, Laura was determined to be innocent of the crime. However on May 25th forty men stormed the sheriff's office. The jailer, named Payne, lied that the two prisoners had been moved elsewhere, but when a revolver was "pressed into his temple," he led them to the prisoners. Mother and son were then hauled by wagon six miles west of town to a steel bridge crossing the Canadian River and hanged.



The next morning a black boy taking his cow to water, discovered the two bodies swaying under the bridge. Before long the scene had attracted hundreds of viewers before the bodies were cut down. No one was ever arrested for the crime.

Peace!