Box L.27

Scope and Contents Named victims of attempted lynching include Horace Dorsey (Springfield, 1933) and James Ward (Coatesville, 1938). Includes articles regarding William Denston of Aardmore, PA, son of alleged victim of George Armwood, lynching victim in Maryland from 1934. Also includes article regarding mob killings of two white enslavers from Maryland, Edward Gorsuch (Christiana, 1851) and unnamed man (Carlisle, 1851), both of whom were in Pa. to search for formerly enslaved persons who had escaped to...

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Named lynching victims are Daniel Jenkins (Union, 1930), Henry Campbell (Mullins, 1932), Singleton (Aiken County, 1945, no first name reported). An attempted lynching of an unnamed person is reported to have taken place in Georgetown, 1940.

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Coverage of the 1926 lynching of Bertha Lowman, Demon Lowman, and Clarence Lowman of Aiken, South Carolina. Folder 1 contains small clippings and folder 2 contains full pages of The World from November 7, 1926 - December 4, 1926

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Named lynching victims are Jerome Boyett and Harvey Winchester (Huntsville, 1933), George Smith (Union City, 1931), Henry Choate (Columbia, 1927), Joseph Boxley (Alamo, 1929), Dick Wilkerson (Manchester, 1934), Elbert Williams (Brownsville, 1940), Baxter Bell (White Bluff, 1935), and George Slim Johnson (Tullahoma, 1943). Victims of attempted lynchings are Henry Mauford (Union City, 1931) and John Fleming (Knoxville, 1947)