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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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