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On The Shubuta Lynching*Over in Shubuta, in Clarke County, Mississippi, last Sunday, a mob, after supposedly over-powering the jailer, took two fourteen-year-old Negro boys, who had been arrested a few days before and allegedly confessed to the attempted rape of a thirteen-year-old white firl, and hung them from an old railroad bridge, the scene of their attempted crime, where their bodies were found early Monday, by a searching party, headed by the county sheriff, the gruesome evidence of their lynching.In reviewing the long history of the crime of lynching in Missisippi, the Shubuta lynching is by far the worst to have blotted the fair name of the state, made a mockery of justice, law and order, and defiled the righ and noble claims and hones of the ideas and ideals of Christian Democratic Civilization.Added to the effects of an already overburdening number of incidents of oppression and suppression occurring al-JMateJsashfeft.. at. SUSh a time as this, when Negroes are sending their sons to the armed forces of the nation to fieht and die for the principles of Christian Democratic Civilization, when they are laboring to make the fullest contribution to the war effort on the home front, might well have resulted in a complete breakdown of Negro spirit and morale in Mississippi.Indeed, the Shubuta lynchings would seem to all but justify the growing fears being widely felt among Negroes throughout Mississinni, that the spirit of the Dred Scott Decision, as expressed by Justice Taney—that a Negro had no rights that a white man was bound to respect—was about to prevail in the state.As bad as were the Shubuta crimes, it will be a far greater crime to allow those responsible for it to go unpunished.It was therefore heartening and reassuring to the Negroes of Mississippi when Governor Johnson publiclv ex-pressed his condemnation of the lynohings. asserted that he would do everything that it was his duty as Governor to do to see that the guilty parties were apprehended and punished, and that such acts were spots upon the good name of Mississippi and condemned by the better class of its people.
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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Mississippi, US
Sat, Oct 17, 1942
Page 8
Full Page
Clipped by
Lake C.
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