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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) LYNCHING.
Mob Hangs Negro Slaying Suspect.
Press
Photograph 7
3
⁄
8
x 10
3
⁄
8
inches; with description at the foot of the image, part of the negative.
Ruston, Louisiana, 1938
[800/1,200]
The lynching of R.C. Williams, a murder suspect, in Ruston Louisiana, October 14, 1938.
This particular image, an AP wire photo was taken by a press photographer and is not in
James Allen’s definitive work, “Without Sanctuary” (Twin Palms, 2003).
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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) LYNCHING.
Lynching photograph.
3
3
⁄
4
x 2
3
⁄
4
inches,
affixed to a black paper mount with a chip to the right lower corner.
Np, circa 1920’s to 1930’s
[800/1,200]
A particularly gruesome photograph, probably cut from a “real photo post card,” and mounted.
This particular photograph is not among those in James Allen’s definitive collection “Without
Sanctuary,” (Twin Palms, 2003).
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