Saturday, August 7, 2010

Strange Fruit: Anniversary Of A Lynching : NPR

Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were lynched in the town center of Marion, Ind., on Aug. 7, 1930.
Strange Fruit: Anniversary Of A Lynching : NPR:

"Eighty years ago, two young African-American men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, were lynched in the town center of Marion, Ind. The night before, on Aug. 6, 1930, they had been arrested and charged with the armed robbery and murder of a white factory worker, Claude Deeter, and the rape of his companion, Mary Ball.

That evening, local police were unable to stop a mob of thousands from breaking into the jail with sledgehammers and crowbars to pull the young men out of their cells and lynch them."

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