Lynching & racial terror
The lynching of Wyatt Outlaw
26 February 1870The courthouse square, Graham, NC
Klansmen took Graham's Black town commissioner from his home and hanged him in the courthouse square. The state's attempt to answer it ended with the governor impeached and removed from office.
- People killed
- 1
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