lynched half naked

[Manuel666]

nice

 

[gibing]

19th century america. True dark ages.

 

[Mattai]

What amazing pictures!

 

[alexonedeath]

I believe I see a black man at the end of the chain, and if the three year old victim, Myrtle, was white, it's not surprising at all that he was hanged. What's surprising is that he hadn't already been burned and mutilated as well. Texas can not have been a black-friendly place way back then. I wonder how many of those males, gawking in the first photo, found the half-naked dead man sexually exciting. I bet a few of them went straight home afterwards and jacked the life out of their cocks.

 

[Pacific]

Very cruel.

 

[djbear]

Remembering the south even 63 years ago (when I first visited there), it is not surprising that these things happened back 50 years prior to then. The animosity was strong and pervasive. Read Grisham - he has two books which describe the atmosphere and captuures it well. He also has a book on Texas execution of an innocent man because he was black.

 

[alexonedeath]

Read Grisham - he has two books which describe the atmosphere and captuures it well. He also has a book on Texas execution of an innocent man because he was black.

Grisham is good, I agree. I read his novel, "The Confession", which you mention. I also read his nonfiction, "The Innocent Man", about a white guy imprisoned for a rape and murder he didn't commit. Both books are tales of anguish. All of Grisham's work is entertaining and worthwhile.

 

[widefoot]

I love those old phots

 

[billolsen89]

The young dude hung in pic on the right was stepson of the man who was lynched by burning to death. The younger guy was suspected of hiding his stepdad from the mob.

 

[zero688]

crazy times