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🧵George Smith AKA "Joe Coe", a married man and father of two, was lynched by a mob on October 10, 1891 in Omaha, Nebraska. Smith was falsely accused and arrested for the rape of Lizzy Yates, a 5-year old white girl, who later (cont)
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🧵George Smith AKA "Joe Coe", a married man and father of two, was lynched by a mob on October 10, 1891 in Omaha, Nebraska. Smith was falsely accused and arrested for the rape of Lizzy Yates, a 5-year old white girl, who later (cont)
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recanted being assaulted by Smith. As par the course; a white mob dragged Smith from the Douglas County Jail, tortured, beat, and dragged him through the streets. He was lynched from streetcar cables while twelve city (cont)
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police officers stood by without intervening. It all began when rumors flew around Omaha that the girl had died, the guilty party was in jail, and was only going to be punished with 20 years' incarceration. This incited the mob of up to 1000 (cont)
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🧵Many of us know of Jim Crow Laws(JCL) that were enacted after the Civil War and during Reconstruction. For the uninformed, it was a caste system that relegated Black people to second class citizens that lasted 100 years. What (cont)
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🧵Many of us know of Jim Crow Laws(JCL) that were enacted after the Civil War and during Reconstruction. For the uninformed, it was a caste system that relegated Black people to second class citizens that lasted 100 years. What (cont)
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many people were taught or only know of JCL is that it was about segregation and voting restrictions. For the record, it was more than that. What if I told you that JCL created a mindset for many people that still exists today?
How? Well, there (cont)
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How? Well, there (cont)
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were rules of "racial etiquette" not written into law that were the norm. In one example, Blacks were not allowed to show public affection toward one another in public, especially kissing, because it offended whites. Another example was if a White person was driving, the(cont) 
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🧵Washington, DC -The Snow Riot began on August 11, 1835. It was a racist attack by young White men who terrorized Black Washingtonians. They were reacting to the story that a young enslaved man named Arthur Bowen carried an axe (cont)
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🧵Washington, DC -The Snow Riot began on August 11, 1835. It was a racist attack by young White men who terrorized Black Washingtonians. They were reacting to the story that a young enslaved man named Arthur Bowen carried an axe (cont)
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into his enslaver's bedroom. She was not harmed. The mob attempted to lynch Bowen, and attacked Black businesses and institutions, starting with a restaurant owned by Beverly Snow-a free Black man. It is important to note that (cont)
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Francis Scott Key (yes, that guy!) played a part in the Snow Riot as he was part the anti-abolitionist movement and an enslaver himself. See the attached article for details.
The attack on Black businesses and homes continued for several days. (cont)
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The attack on Black businesses and homes continued for several days. (cont)
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Dallas, TX - On March 10, 1910, Allen Brooks was lynched while awaiting court proceedings. He was accused of raping Mary Beuvens, a young White toddler in late February 1910. He proclaimed his innocence as there was no proof (cont)
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Dallas, TX - On March 10, 1910, Allen Brooks was lynched while awaiting court proceedings. He was accused of raping Mary Beuvens, a young White toddler in late February 1910. He proclaimed his innocence as there was no proof (cont)
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he committed a crime. Brooks was taken to jail and formally indicted a day later. He was moved to several jails outside the city limits due to concerns for his safety. He was returned to the Dallas courthouse where a mob of hundreds gathered. (cont)
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After easily penetrating a human pillar of more than 100 law enforcers, the mob pushed its way through, demolishing doors to overrun the courthouse. A frenzied search for Brooks led to a jury room, where he was discovered hunkered down in a corner. A rope was tied around (cont)
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🧵August 15, 1868-Franklin, TN. In what is to believed to be the first lynching of a Jewish person in America; store owner Samuel Bierson was murdered along with Lawrence Bowman, a Black man who was Bierson's clerk. (cont)
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🧵August 15, 1868-Franklin, TN. In what is to believed to be the first lynching of a Jewish person in America; store owner Samuel Bierson was murdered along with Lawrence Bowman, a Black man who was Bierson's clerk. (cont)
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A group of masked men-the KKK, appeared at the front and rear doors of Bierfield's store. They forced him outside and shot Bierfield five times, four times in the head at point-blank range, and then left him for dead in the middle of the street. (cont)
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Bowman was injured in the violence, and later died of his wounds. Another Black man who was present in the store somehow managed to escape. A local newspaper cited that Bierfield was a murdered and deserved his execution. This was of course false(cont)
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