Elmore Bolling was a successful black businessman who ran an inclusive business in the Jim Crow South. He was known his business savvy and his philanthropy. In 1947, Elmore was murdered by a group of white men who were angry about Elmore's success.
Black Americans weren’t spared lynching on Christmas Day during the lynching era. https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/xzfe44/Episode_7_Christmas_Lynchings.mp3 Featured in this episode are the stories of three lynchings December 25, 1901 Prairie Blossom Community, Lamar County, Texas Reverend J N McClinton, a farmer and popular preacher, was inside on Christmas night when he heard men outside of his home, shouting … Continue reading Episode 7: Christmas Lynchings →
In the summer of 1906, five members of a prominent white farming family, were murdered in Salisbury, North Carolina. With no evidence, only an accusation, six black sharecroppers were accused of the murders. Within the next month, three more innocent lives would be taken in Rowan County. https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/nswp9m/Episode_6_1906_Lyerly_Murders_and_Salisbury_Lynching_in_Rowan_County_North_Carolina.mp3 The accused were: Nease Gillespie John Gillespie … Continue reading Episode 6: Lyerly Murders and Salisbury Lynching in Rowan County, North Carolina →
September 17, 1935 – Oxford, Mississippi (Lafayette County) Elwood Higginbotham, a black sharecropper and union leader, is on trial for the murder of his white neighbor. An all white jury had been empanelled for the trial. Elwood Higginbotham’s defense…was that he killed his neighbor in defense of his home and property. When jury deliberations began, rumors … Continue reading Episode 5: Elwood Higginbotham – Lafayette County, Mississippi →
In 1897, Frazier Baker, became the first African American postmaster of Lake City, South Carolina. The circumstances of his lynching in 1898 shocked many in the country and galvanized the anti-lynching movement to seek federal intervention
In July of 1935 Rubin Stacy was accused of attacking a white woman. A white mob, that included the local sheriff, lynched Stacy. A photo of the lynching was so disturbing that the NAACP used it in a campaign to call for anti-lynching legislation. https://colorlinemurders.podbean.com/mf/web/3phwws/Episode_3__Rubin_Stacy_-_Broward_County_Florida.mp3 More about this episode The Day They Lynched Reuben Stacey … Continue reading Episode 3: Rubin Stacy – Broward County, Florida →
Before you hear stories of victims of color line murders, it’s important to understand the history of lynching in America and how lynching became an acceptable act of racial terror in the American South. https://colorlinemurders.podbean.com/mf/web/86igvi/Episode_1__History_of_Lynching_in_America.mp3 Learn more about the history of lynching Read the report “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror”, by … Continue reading Episode 1: History of Lynching in America →
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