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Description
Newspaper article describing the lynching of black carpenter Richard Robertson, who was first shot several times before being hung from this tree near Christ Episcopal Church in downtown Mobile, Alabama, in January 1909. The white "X" seen in the photograph marks the tree. Robertson was taken from the county jail after midnight, where he had been locked up on suspicion of killing a police officer trying to serve him with a warrant.
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01/24/1909
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University of South Alabama, McCall LibraryRecord Contributed By
The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South AlabamaKeywords
- African Americans
- Alabama
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights And Media
- Civil Rights Movement
- History
- Lynching
- Mob Violence
- Mobile