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<\/a>\n“Gorilla Negro Lynched in Mississippi” headline for Henry Sykes murder in Rawleigh Times, North Carolina, October 23, 1907<\/em><\/p>\n
All too often, black southerners, innocent of any crime or offense were victims of lynching or burnings because they were black and in the wrong place at the wrong time. The only evidence against Jim Black, Thomas Ryor, and James Ford, implicated in the murder of the wife of a white farmer of Hendersonville, South Carolina, was that they had been spotted in the neighborhood; the three black youths were quickly lynched. The white farmer later confessed to murdering his wife and concealing her body. Fred and Jane Sullivan were accused of burning a barn; a mob lynched the couple, ignoring their four-year-old child. After emptying their guns into Bob Kennedy for assaulting a white man, a mob discovered he was not the man wanted for the crime and continued their chase for “the guilty one.”<\/p>\n
Culled from: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography In America<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The rare white lynching.\u00a0 Here’s a summary of the event from the Florida Historical Quarterly<\/a>: Culled from: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography In America<\/a><\/p>\n This is the continuation of the 1864 diary of Andersonville prisoner Private George A. Hitchcock (see the\u00a0archived version<\/a>\u00a0for all entries up until now).<\/p>\n Here\u2019s today\u2019s entry:<\/p>\nLynching Photo Du Jour<\/h3>\n
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\nThe lynching of Castenego Ficcarotta and Angelo Albano,
\nSeptember 20, 1910, Florida.<\/p>\n
\nOn 20 September 1910, law enforcement officers in Tampa arrested two Sicilian immigrants, Angelo Albano and Castenge (alias Castenzio and Costanzo) Ficarotta. They were charged with complicity in what ultimately turned out to be the fatal shooting of J. Frank Esterling, an accountant for the Bustillo Brothers and Diaz Cigar Company, a large cigar manufacture that employed some 600 workers in West Tampa. While Albano and Ficarotta were being taken to the county jail, at a time when Esterling was still alive though hospitalized in critical condition, a crowd of twenty-five to thirty people stopped the horsedrawn hack by which the two suspects were being moved, seized the two prisoners, transported them to a nearby grove, and lynched them. As a desecrating insult to the corpses, a pipe was placed in Ficarotta’s mouth and a notice was pinned to Albano’s belt. Written in black ink, the notice read “Beware! Others take note or go the same way. We know seven more. We are watching you. If any more citizens are molested, look out-Justice.”<\/p>\n\nAndersonville Prisoner Diary Entry Du Jour!<\/h3>\n