re: #302 A Mom Anon

He’s not so young that lynching still wasn’t a fairly regular occurrence in that part of the world too, at the very least there’s not a chance he didn’t hear about that shit growing up and may have witnessed it a time or two himself. Like a black guy was EVER going to complain to Duck Boy about anything ever in that fucking environment. Please.

All seemed from at least a generation before his time, but the message would linger:

Lynchings in the Monroe Area: (From Tuskegee University Records) December 1, 1882, Unknown Negro, Man Stealing; July 9, 1883, Henderson Lee, charged with murder; April 27, 1884, Mr. Mulligan (white man), charged with murder; February 18, 1886, George Robinson, Self defense ;April 19, 1889, Unnamed Negro man, rape; May 18, 1889, Unnamed Negro Man, burglary (Columbia); October 20, 1890, John Russ (White man), murder (Columbia); October 30, 1890, Negro named Showden, threatening language; May 22, 1892, Unnamed Negro Man, murder; December 28, 1892, Tillman Green, attempted assault April 23, 1894, Thomas Claxton, Murder (Tallulah) ;April 23, 1894, David Hawkins, Murder (Tallulah); April 27, 1894, Thell Claston, Murder (Tallulah); April 27, 1894, Scott Harvey, Murder (Tallulah) April 27, 1894, Camp Claxton, Murder (Tallulah); June 4, 1894, Thomas Underwood, Murder; June 14, 1894, J.H. Day, Suspected arson; January 10, 1896, A.L. Smart, murder; July 13, 1896, Courtney Rendrick, murder; September 16, 1896; James McCauley, rape; October 2, 1897, Wash Furran, rape; May 29, 1906, R. T. Rogers, murder (Tallulah); August 26, 1906, Alfred Shaufilet, murder; March 15, 1907, Flint Williams, murder; March 15, 1907, Henry Gardner, murder ;August 24, 1909, William S. Wade, murderous assault; August 25, 1910, Laura Porter, keeping a house of disrepute; October 22, 1913, Warren Eaton, murder; August 5, 1914, Preston Griffin, murder; August 7, 1914, Charles Hall, murder; August 8, 1914, Louis Pruitt, murder; August 8, 1914, Dan Johnson, murder; March 16, 1918, John Richard (lynched but released before death), robbery and rape;March 16, 1918, George McNeal, robbery and rape; April 22, 1918, Clyde Williams, assault with intent to murder; January 29, 1919, Thompson Smith, Murder;August 9, 1919, Unnamed Negro man, suspected murder.

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