Lynching & racial terror
The lynching of Sam Hose
23 April 1899Near Newnan, GA
Sam Hose was mutilated and burned before a crowd of two thousand, many brought by special excursion train from Atlanta. Seeing his knuckles displayed in a shop window turned W. E. B. Du Bois from detached scholarship to advocacy.
- People killed
- 1
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