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7. The Northern United States and the Genesis of Racial Lynching:

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Mon Apr 9, 2012, 11:39 PM

Apr 2012

http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/97/3/621.extract

The Northern United States and the Genesis of Racial Lynching: The Lynching of African Americans in the Civil War Era

I'm very familar with the one in Newburgh, in the end a Grand Jury and subsequent trial convicted a group of local citizens who broke into the county jail and dragged the victim out. A later coroner inquest found, the he was innocent of the crime of which he was accused. The sheriff & his wife were overcome by over 3000 thousand people on the court house lawn...the local police never arrived to help.

Lynching Incidents continued into the late 19th century..in other communites in the county.

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