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Box L.27

 Container

Contains 116 Results:

Lynching Cases - South Carolina - Lowman Family (Aiken), 1926-1928

 File — Box: L.27
Scope and Contents

Coverage of the 1926 lynching of Bertha Lowman, Demon Lowman, and Clarence Lowman of Aiken, South Carolina. Folder 1 contains small clippings and folder 2 contains full pages of The World from November 7, 1926 - December 4, 1926

Dates: 1926-1928

Lynching Cases - Tennessee, 1927-1948, 1960

 File — Box: L.27
Scope and Contents

Named lynching victims are Jerome Boyett and Harvey Winchester (Huntsville, 1933), George Smith (Union City, 1931), Henry Choate (Columbia, 1927), Joseph Boxley (Alamo, 1929), Dick Wilkerson (Manchester, 1934), Elbert Williams (Brownsville, 1940), Baxter Bell (White Bluff, 1935), and George Slim Johnson (Tullahoma, 1943). Victims of attempted lynchings are Henry Mauford (Union City, 1931) and John Fleming (Knoxville, 1947)

Dates: 1927-1948; 1960

Lynching Cases - Tennessee - E.K. Harris (Shelbyville), 1934

 File — Box: L.27
Scope and Contents

Contains a letter to Carl Murphy from eyewitness Mrs. R.L. Suggs.

Dates: 1934