Lynching & racial terror
The lynching of Jesse Washington
15 May 1916City Hall square, Waco, TX
Jesse Washington, a 17-year-old farmhand, was seized from a Waco courtroom and burned alive outside City Hall before a crowd of some 10,000 people. Photographs were sold as postcards.
- People killed
- 1
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