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May 16 • 5 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
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🧵WARNING! This thread has articles that contain very disturbing and graphic photos. There is no intent to glorify a lynching. This is for educational purposes only.

Jessie Washington was lynched by a mob in Waco, TX on May (cont)

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16, 1916 after his conviction for the murder of Lucy Fryer. As per sources, Washington confessed to the murder; however it was known that he was illiterate. His confession to the murder was coerced. Soon after a jury found him guilty, a mob of up (cont)

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to 2,000 men seized Washington, chained him, beat him and dragged him to the town square, where he was burned. There was a celebratory atmosphere among Whites at the spectacle of the murder, and many children attended during their lunch hour. (cont)

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Members of the mob cut off his fingers, and hung him over a bonfire after saturating him with coal oil. He was repeatedly lowered and raised over the fire for about two hours. The lynching drew a crowd of 10,000 to 15,000 people at its peak. (cont)

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including the mayor, John Dollins, and the chief of police, Guy McNamara. They allowed the lynching to go on even though it was illegal in Texas.

Parts of Washington's body, including teeth and genitals, were taken as souvenirs.

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🧵 March 9, 1892, a mob in Memphis, TN lynched Thomas Moss and his business partners Will Stewart and Calvin McDowell. This is historically referred to as The People's Grocery lynching. The incident was a result of the (cont)

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🧵On the morning of July 29, 1910 in Slocum, TX, several groups made up of 30 to 40 White men indiscriminately murdered Black people. It all began when a white man reportedly attempted to collect a debt from a (cont)

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well-regarded Black citizen, a confrontation occurred. Hard feelings lingered. Rumors spread, warning of threats against Anglo citizens and plans for race riots. On July 29, 1910, White mobs organized and began hunting and shooting Black people (cont)

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🧵October 3, 1908-Fulton County, Kentucky: A Black land owner named David Walker became involved in a verbal dispute with a White woman who claimed he swore at her; making her upset. Later that evening, a mob of 50 Night Riders (cont)

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arrived at his home. They threatened him and demanded that he come outside, but he refused.

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was carrying their infant child, rushed outside and was met with a fusilade of bullets that killed them both. Three children were the next to die, quickly shot by the mob upon their exit of the house. The eldest son refused to come out and perished (cont)

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🧵By now, you may know of the Red Summer of 1919. Today, we will look at the incident that led to nationwide race riots and massacres; and learn of the Red Summer's first victim, 17 year old Eugene Williams. (cont)

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On July 27, 1919, Eugene Williams, a Black teen, was on a raft in Lake Michigan at 25th Street beach in Chicago. He inadvertently drifted towards a de facto border at 29th Street that separated the white part of the beach from the black part (cont).

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As a response, a white man began throwing rocks at Williams, ultimately hitting him and leading to Williams drowning. The police refused to arrest the man who caused Williams' death resulted in protests and rioting. When the riots ended on August (cont)

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🧵Many people are unaware that the U.S. requested the help of Indigenous people to protect Alaska during World War 2. The Alaska Territorial Guard (ATG) was composed of 6,300 men and women ages 12 to 80.

The ATG was formed in(cont)

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1942 in direct response to the invasion of several Aleutian Islands by Japan.

The were not properly recognized for their service until more than 60 years later.

In 2010, the U.S. government finally recognized the ATG for their service and gave (cont)

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them formal veteran status when President George W. Bush signed a bill into law that ordered the defense secretary to issue honorable discharges to the Alaskan Natives.

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🧵One of the things that has been ignored in history books is the role Jewish people played in the civil rights movement. There was always an alliance between Jews & Blacks going back to the early days of the NAACP. (cont)

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I believe it's past time to acknowledge the alliance between Jews & Blacks over the past 100 years as both groups were and still are targets of anti semitism & racism. Jews were active in the south; working with Dr. Martin Luther King and other (cont)

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civil rights activists and leaders. Sadly, some have made the ultimate sacrifice.

In the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders of 1964, activists Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were both Jewish; along with James Chaney. They knew (con't)

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