Lynching of Jim and Mark Fox
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Lynching of Jim and Mark Fox
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Jim and Mark Fox were two African-American brothers, who were murdered in Louisville, Mississippi, in 1927.
On June 13, 1927, a mob of 1,000 white men from Louisville lynched two African-Americans, Jim and Mark Fox. In the aftermath of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the Fox brothers were working in or for a Red Cross camp, and got into an argument with a white sawmill superintendent, allegedly killing him. The argument apparently concerned work hours. The two brothers were seized by a crow
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Lynching of two Black men in Mississippi, 1927
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jim_and_Mark_Fox
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2024-04-16T02:21:15Z
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