Lynching of Raymond Byrd
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Lynching of Raymond Byrd
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Raymond Arthur Byrd was an African-American farmhand who was lynched by a mob in Wythe County, Virginia on August 15, 1926. Byrd was born in Speedwell, Virginia to Stephen and Josephine Sheffey Byrd. Byrd was the second of four children born in the family. He lived in the Black Lick district of Wythe County and was accused of rape and subsequently lynched by a mob on August 15, 1926. Byrd was kidnapped from the Wytheville jail by a mob of masked men, shot, bludgeoned, and dragged several miles b
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