On September 27, 1891, a White mob brutally lynched a Black man named Lee Bailey, in DeLand, hanging him and riddling his body with bullets after kidnapping him from the Volusia County Jail. The previous morning, a White woman reported to police that she had been assaulted. Although the woman…
On June 19, 1895, a white mob in Abbeville, Mississippi, brutally lynched William Chandler, tying him to a telegraph pole in front of the railroad depot and riddling his body with bullets. Mr. Chandler, a Black man from Alabama who had only been in town for a few days, was…
Sicilian Immigration to Louisiana. From the 1870s till 1920, approximately 3,000 Sicilians per year immigrated to America via New Orleans. They worked on plantations, railroads, and docks; soon becoming entrepreneurs in importing. shipping. farming, and retail. A New Orleanian of Sicilian descent, Joseph P. Macheca, ran a shipping company and…
Mobs of white people brutally lynched two Black men, Louis Senegal and Antoine Domingue, within an 11-year period in Carencro, Louisiana. On March 24, 1896, 500 white men abducted Mr. Senegal, who was also referred to as Louis Sinclair, from the Carencro jail and hanged him to death. Police left…
On June 13, 1891, a mob of white people brutally lynched a 20-year-old Black man named Robert Clark, in a wooded area in Bristol, Virginia, known as Lindsey’s Grove believed to be a quarter mile south of here. The mob, numbering as many as 3,000 people, hanged Mr. Clark from…
On March 21, 1890, a white mob lynched a 16-year-old Black boy named Robert Mosley near Meridianville. Prior to this death, Robert earned a living working as a farm laborer. On March 20, a white woman related to Robert’s employer accused him of sexual impropriety. News of the unscrutinized accusation…