Spectators photographed with the charred ?
Spectators photographed with the charred corpse of Jesse Washington after his lynching in Waco, Texas, May 15, 1916. Washington, a 17 year old mentally retarded African American farmhand, was lynched after his conviction for the murder of a local woman
Picture No
10658759
Media ID
45206069
Size
1351px x 2160px
(426KB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Everett Collection
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Blacks Burned Charred Conviction Deaths Discrimination Executions Farmhand Injustice Lynched Lynching Mentally Murders Punishments Retarded Waco
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