Lynching of Cordie Cheek
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title:
Lynching of Cordie Cheek
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James Cordie Cheek was a 17-year-old African-American youth who was lynched by a white mob in Maury County, Tennessee near the county seat of Columbia. After being falsely accused of attempting to rape a young white girl, Cheek was released from jail when the grand jury did not indict him, due to lack of evidence. The county magistrate and two other men from Maury County abducted Cheek from Nashville, where he was staying with relatives near Fisk University, took him back to the county, and turn
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American lynching victim (1916–1933)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Cordie_Cheek
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2024-04-16T02:21:33Z
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