Showing posts with label lynching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lynching. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Lynchings in Florida, 1881-1935

In 1911, the New York Times printed this racist apologia by Gov. Emmet O'Neal of Alabama. The NYT had taken an interest in lynching previously, as in these 1895 editorials here and here. This blog article therefore links primarily to NYT articles that reported lynching. The table below contains links to articles concerning 36 lynchings that took place in Florida between 1881 and 1935: