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The Waco Horror: an account of the recent burning of a human being at Waco, Tex. as reported by a special agent of the national Association of the Advancement of Colored People
Item is a supplement to The Crisis published in July 1916 by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The piece begins with a introduction to the history and demographics of Waco, Texas. It then details the lynching of a seventeen year old African American...
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| Date: | 1916-07-01/1916-07-31 |
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| Call Number: | E441 .A58 v120 no.2 |
| Format: | Electronic |
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| Copyright: | Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org) |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/10892 |
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Item is a supplement to The Crisis published in July 1916 by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The piece begins with a introduction to the history and demographics of Waco, Texas. It then details the lynching of a seventeen year old African American boy named Jesse Washington. The story is accompanied by pictures of buildings in Waco, the mob, and Washington's immolated body. |
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