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Crowd gathering around lynching at night, Indiana, August 7, 1930

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Text on reverse: "Labeled '104 Double Lynching,' it shows a night flash shot of two Negroes hanging from a tree branch with a crowd of men and women standing by, some smiling." Bodies of Tom Shipp and Abe Smith, Marion, Grant County, Indiana, Aug 7, 1930. Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011), writer and civil rights activist, collected these photographs during the course of his career fighting for equality throughout the Southern United States.
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Keywords

  1. Indiana
  2. Lynching
  3. Lynchings
  4. Racism
  5. Terrorism

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