Fairly orderly lynching (crowd of 5000, including some black folks) for what he confessed to doing to a little 4 year old girl (raping her, nearly to death). With witnesses called to confirm he was the man. Guy hung was a 25 year old white man from a respectable Boston family.
The Chicago Tribune summed up nicely the feelings of all of the Midwest newspapers when it wrote “If ever a crime was committed which justified recourse to mob violence in order that its punishment might be swift and sure – if any conceivable atrocity can be considered as justifying lynch law – such a crime was that of the tramp who was yesterday morning taken from the jail at Minneapolis and hanged from the limb of a tree in front of the high school building. Under the circumstances it is not surprising that public sentiment in Minneapolis and St Paul is on the side of the well–ordered mob which executed a well-deserved vengeance.”
Seldom mentioned fact: 2/5ths of all the thousands who were lynched were White, because they weren't simply targeting Blacks, but Republicans more generally.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2012646358/
Frank McManus, 1882 in Minneapolis.
Fairly orderly lynching (crowd of 5000, including some black folks) for what he confessed to doing to a little 4 year old girl (raping her, nearly to death). With witnesses called to confirm he was the man. Guy hung was a 25 year old white man from a respectable Boston family.
https://www.mostnotorious.com/2016/06/03/the-lynching-of-frank-mcmanus/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lynching-of-frank-mcmanus-a-true-crime-history-podcast/id1434979856?i=1000429590062
Very much NOT a BLM / Antifa / DNC / Biden supporter event.
They use a soft rope to keep it peaceful.
Seldom mentioned fact: 2/5ths of all the thousands who were lynched were White, because they weren't simply targeting Blacks, but Republicans more generally.