The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.Indiana is almost as bad as the South, considering the Ku Klux Klan ran the Republican Party, and thus the state, throughout the 1920s. A few years ago, the Dayton Daily News featured the recorded lynchings in Ohio. Several occurred along the route of U.S. 68, from Xenia up to Kenton. Not exactly a respectable part of Ohio history.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Indiana Makes History
August 7, 1930:
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