Lynching of Samuel Bierfield and Lawrence Bowman
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lynching-of-samuel-bierfield-and-lawrence-bowman-164-1672047
title:
Lynching of Samuel Bierfield and Lawrence Bowman
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Samuel A. Bierfield is believed to be the first Jew lynched in the United States. Bierfield and his African-American clerk, Lawrence Bowman, were confronted in Bierfield's store in Franklin, Tennessee, and fatally shot on August 15, 1868, by a group of masked men. The killers were believed to belong to a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, which had emerged as an insurgent force in the state in 1866. The murder of Bierfield and Bowman was reported by both The New York Times and the Nashville Unio
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First Jew lynched in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Samuel_Bierfield_and_Lawrence_Bowman
date created:
2014-12-13T07:02:05Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T18:56:19Z
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