Lynching of Ed Johnson
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lynching-of-ed-johnson-272-11749201
title:
Lynching of Ed Johnson
text:
On March 19, 1906, Ed Johnson, a young African American man, was murdered by a lynch mob in his home town of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had been wrongfully sentenced to death for the rape of Nevada Taylor, but Justice John Marshall Harlan of the United States Supreme Court had issued a stay of execution. To prevent delay or avoidance of execution, a mob broke into the jail where Johnson was held, and abducted and lynched him from the Walnut Street Bridge. During Johnson's incarceration there was
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encyclopedia
description:
African American who was lynched in the U.S.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Ed_Johnson
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date modified:
2024-04-13T13:54:01Z
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