Lynching of Jo Reed
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Lynching of Jo Reed
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Jo Reed was an African American man who was lynched in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 30, 1875, where he was taken by a white mob from the county jail after being arrested for killing a police officer in a confrontation. He was hanged from a suspension bridge but, after the rope broke, Reed survived the attempted lynching, escaped via the river, and left Nashville to go West. In contrast to similar later incidents, both the governor of Tennessee and mayor of Nashville intervened after Reed was a
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African American man who was lynched in the U.S.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jo_Reed
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2024-03-14T12:44:31Z
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