You think all this is merely a product of the Frumpy Horror Picture Show?

June 20th, 1940; Brownsville, TN--NACCP Leader Elbert Williams was lynched by the town sheriff and a white mob

December 16th, 1945; Fontana, CA--white supremacists bombed the house O'Day Short purchased in a white neighborhood; his wife Helen and his nine and seven year-old daughters were killed in the fire.  Mr. Short died two weeks later

April 9th, 1951; Groveland, FL--after Thurgood Marshall successfully argued for retrial of a false charge of "raping a white woman" against Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin, Lake Co Sheriff Willis McCall, assigned to return them to jail, pulled over and shot both men, who were handcuffed.  McCall claimed "self defense".

January 23, 1957; Montgomery, AL--delivery truck driver Willie Edwards, Jr. was pulled over by three Klansmen, repeatedly tortured, and forced at gunpoint to jump from a bridge into the Alabama River to his death

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