Lynching of Richard Puryear
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Lynching of Richard Puryear
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The lynching of Richard Puryear took place on March 15, 1894, at Stroudsburg, Monroe County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. A mostly white mob seized and hanged Richard Puryear, a Black railroad worker accused of murdering a white storekeeper, after he escaped from prison. A grand jury investigated the lynching, but no members of the mob faced criminal charges or convictions in Puryear's murder.
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1894 lynching of African American man in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Richard_Puryear
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2023-11-15T12:58:00Z
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