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   Mr. REID. Mr. President, this past Friday, I was in Cincinnati. I had some business to conduct there, but my plane got in early, and I had some time on my hands. My staff said: Would you like to go to a new museum that opened in August of 2004? I said: Sure, I will be happy to. It is a museum that is dedicated to forcing us to remember what went on in the dark days of the history of this country dealing with slavery.

   The museum is done so well. You walk in, and the first thing you see is this large facility--big, tall--and it is a facility that was used in the late 1700s, 1800s for holding slaves. The upper story--using that term loosely--was for the men and the bottom for the women. They still have the shackles there, the chains that were used to hold these people. They have the writing on the walls used to describe what these human beings were worth, how much money, and for what they could be used.

   So it is very appropriate that I returned to Washington today since we are going to debate some legislation that is very pertinent.

   In this body's two centuries of history, we have done many great things. We sent men to the Moon, created schools for our kids, fed the hungry, and lent a helping hand to struggling families. But today I rise to speak about one of this institution's great failures--its shameful refusal to enact antilynching legislation in the first half of the 20th century.

   Today, one of the saddest chapters in our Chamber's history will come to a close when we apologize for the Senate's inaction. I join my colleagues in apologizing to the deceased victims of lynchings and their surviving loved ones. I pray this Chamber will never fail to see this injustice that was done. We must realize and understand what it was. It was an injustice.

   While the exact number is impossible to determine, records indicate that since 1882--the best records we have--4,749 individuals have died from lynching, men and women, mostly men, and most of them by far African Americans. These Americans were killed, tortured, mutilated, and maimed with near impunity. Most were denied due process under the law, and their killers rarely--very rarely--faced consequences for their actions, as indicated by the prayer offered today by our Chaplain which indicated little less than 1 percent who saw some retribution in the courts. The Senate's inaction helped create a culture of acceptance toward these heinous crimes against humanity.

   Photos from this book--``Without Sanctuary'' is the name of the book--a book of lynchings that occurred in America, and it is depicted in photographs--photographs that are so hard to accept--is the principal reason we are here today, this one book.

   This book shows men, women, children donning their finest clothing and gleefully posing in front of deceased people who had been hanged and, prior to being hanged, often mutilated. Even worse, many photos were turned into postcards, until 1908, when the Senate at least amended U.S. Postal Service regulations to forbid the mailing of lynching photographs made into postcards. Think about that.

   American history is rich with stories of heroes and heroines, as well as patriots, of patriotism. However, the lynching of so many Americans will always be a stain on our

   great democracy. Only after passage of time, only after growing pressure from civil rights organizations, only after over 200 antilynching bills, condemnation by foreign nations, petitions from seven U.S. Presidents, and outcries from the African-American press and some mainstream publications did the occurrence of this horrible act decline. But this book, published in 2000, is the real reason we are moving today.

   It is my sincere hope that the relatives of the victims of these horrible acts will accept this body's sincere apology and take solace in the Senate finally recognizing its shortcomings.

   It is also my sincere hope that the Senate does not stop with its apologies. There is much more to be done. We can honor the legacy of these victims by continuing to confront the challenges in civil rights before us in enacting legislation that will protect, for example, voting rights and improve the lives of so many Americans.

   First, I encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stand strong in support of reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act.

   Second, disparities between African Americans and Whites in health care and education are still too great. I encourage this body to support legislation that will improve health care among African Americans, improve educational resources, and provide opportunities for African Americans in many different avenues.

   Finally, I ask the families of the victims of these terrible crimes to accept the Senate's apology, and I pray that my colleagues will act positively on upcoming legislation to honor the souls of those passed and that they may finally rest in peace.

   Mr. President, again, I extend my appreciation to the majority leader in allowing me to go before him this afternoon.

   The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader.

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   Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, in 45 minutes or so, we will be turning to an important issue which people have spoken to over the course of the day, an issue we will be spending the evening on. It is an issue that is one of the worst failings of this institution in our history, a failing surrounding a refusal to act on our part against lynching, against vigilantism, against mob murder. It has been a shame in many ways. We have to be careful when we use that word, but when we look at the reality of missed opportunities to act, we can, with justification, use the word ``shame'' on the institution and a shame on Senators who didn't just fail to act but deliberately kept the Senate and the whole of the Federal Government from acting and from acting proactively.

   Although deep scars will always remain, I am hopeful we will begin to heal and help close the wounds caused by lynching. Four out of five lynch mob victims were African American. The practice followed slavery as an ugly expression of racism and prejudice. In the history of lynching, mobs murdered more than 4,700 people. Nearly 250 of those victims were from my State of Tennessee. Very few had committed any sort of crime whatsoever. Lynching was a way to humiliate, to repress, to dehumanize.

   The Senate disgracefully bears some of the responsibility. Between 1890 and 1952, seven Presidents petitioned Congress to ban lynching. In those same 62 years, the House of Representatives passed three antilynching bills. Each bill died in the Senate, and the Senate made a terrible mistake.

   The tyranny of lynch mobs created an environment of fear throughout the American South. Lynching took innocent lives. It divided society, and it thwarted the aspirations of African Americans. Lynching was nothing less than a form of racial terrorism.

   It took the vision and courage of men and women such as Mary White Ovington, W.E.B. DuBois, George H. White, Jane Adams and, of course, fellow Tennessean Ida Wells-Barnett to pass Federal laws against lynching and put an end to the despicable practice.

   Ida Wells-Barnett, indeed, may have done more than any other person to expose the terrible evils of lynching. A school teacher from Memphis who put herself through college, she became one of the Nation's first female newspaper editors. A civil rights crusader from her teens, Ida Wells committed herself to the fight against lynching after a mob murdered her friends--Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry Stewart.

   These three men, driven by their entrepreneurial energy, opened a small grocery store that catered primarily to African Americans. They took business away from nearby White business owners. Driven by hatred and jealousy, by rage and prejudice, an angry White mob stormed their store. Acting in self-defense, Wells' three friends fired on the rioters. The police arrested the grocers for defending themselves. The mob kidnapped all three from jail, and all three were murdered in the Memphis streets.

   These brutal murders galvanized Wells into action. Her righteous anger, blistering editorials, and strong sense of justice further enraged Memphis bigots. They burned her newspaper presses and threatened to murder her. Wells moved to Chicago and became one of that city's leading social crusaders. Wells' book ``Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases'' and her dogged investigative reporting exposed millions of Americans to the brutality of lynching. In a nation rife with racism and prejudice, Ida Wells and her colleagues began the civil rights movement. They helped bring us integration. They paved the way for equality. And they taught all of us that racism is a terrible evil.

   After many years of struggle, after many setbacks, and after much heartache, they won. From President Truman's Executive order ending segregation in the Armed Forces to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a series of civil rights laws moved the Nation toward legal equality.

   But no civil rights law is as important to our Nation's political process as the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

   It enfranchised millions of African-American voters and it brought many black politicians into office.

   Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act will be up for reauthorization in 2007. President Reagan signed into law a 25-year reauthorization in 1982.

   Section 4 contains a temporary preclearance provision that applies to Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and parts of Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, and North Carolina.

   These States must submit any voting changes to the U.S. Department of Justice for preclearance. If the Department of Justice concludes that the change weakens the voting strength of minority voters, it can refuse to approve the change.

   While I recognize that this can impose a bureaucratic burden on States acting in good faith, we must continue our Nation's work to protect voting rights. That is why we need to extend the Voting Rights Act.

   Quite simply, we owe civil rights pioneers such as Ida Wells nothing less.

   I hope the day will come when racism and prejudice are relegated completely to our past. This resolution is a positive step in the right direction.

   Transforming our Nation requires that we recall our history--all of it. We can become a better people by celebrating the glories of our past--but also our imperfections. That includes continuing to do our utmost to protect voting rights for all Americans.

   Mr. President, I yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum.

   The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.

   The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.

   Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.

   The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. CHAFEE). Without objection, it is so ordered.

   Ms. LANDRIEU. I ask unanimous consent that the debate time on the Griffith nomination be yielded back and the Senate proceed to legislative session in order to consider S. Res. 39.

   The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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   The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title.

   The bill clerk read as follows:

   A resolution (S. Res. 39) apologizing to the victims of lynching and the descendants of those victims for the failure of the Senate to enact anti-lynching legislation.

   Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the clerk proceed with the reading of the resolution.

   The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

   The bill clerk read as follows:

   Whereas the crime of lynching succeeded slavery as the ultimate expression of racism in the United States following Reconstruction;

   Whereas lynching was a widely acknowledged practice in the United States until the middle of the 20th century;

   Whereas lynching was a crime that occurred throughout the United States, with documented incidents in all but 4 States;

   Whereas at least 4,742 people, predominantly African-Americans, were reported lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968;

   Whereas 99 percent of all perpetrators of lynching escaped from punishment by State or local officials;

   Whereas lynching prompted African-Americans to form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and prompted members of B'nai B'rith to found the Anti-Defamation League;

   Whereas nearly 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced in Congress during the first half of the 20th century;

   Whereas, between 1890 and 1952, 7 Presidents petitioned Congress to end lynching;

   Whereas, between 1920 and 1940, the House of Representatives passed 3 strong anti-lynching measures;

   Whereas protection against lynching was the minimum and most basic of Federal responsibilities, and the Senate considered but

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   Whereas the recent publication of ``Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America'' helped bring greater awareness and proper recognition of the victims of lynching;

   Whereas only by coming to terms with history can the United States effectively champion human rights abroad; and

   Whereas an apology offered in the spirit of true repentance moves the United States toward reconciliation and may become central to a new understanding, on which improved racial relations can be forged: Now, therefore, be it

    Resolved, That the Senate--

    (1) apologizes to the victims of lynching for the failure of the Senate to enact anti-lynching legislation;

    (2) expresses the deepest sympathies and most solemn regrets of the Senate to the descendants of victims of lynching, the ancestors of whom were deprived of life, human dignity, and the constitutional protections accorded all citizens of the United States; and

    (3) remembers the history of lynching, to ensure that these tragedies will be neither forgotten nor repeated.

   Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, tonight this body will take an important and extraordinary step. The Senate will, belatedly but most sincerely, issue a formal apology to the victims of lynching and their families, some of whom are with us tonight in this Chamber, for its failure to pass antilynching legislation.

   Without question, there have been other grave injustices committed in the noble exercise of establishing this great democracy. Some have already been acknowledged and addressed by this and previous Congresses, and our work continues. However, there may be no other injustice in American history for which the Senate so uniquely bears responsibility. In refusing to take up legislation passed by the House of Representatives on three separate occasions and requested by seven Presidents from William Henry Harrison to Harry Truman, the Senate engaged in a different kind of culpability.

   Beginning in 1881, this tragic phenomenon of domestic terrorism was documented in large measure through the groundbreaking and heroic efforts of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the independent newspapers and publications. From that year until 1964, 4,742 American citizens were lynched. These are the recorded numbers. Historians estimate the true number to be much higher.

   An apology alone can never suffice to heal the harm that was done, and for many victims justice is out of reach. Yet I believe, and this resolution lays forth the principle, that a sincere and heartfelt apology is a necessary first step toward real healing.

   It is important that the people of our country understand the true nature of this unprecedented rampage of terror. Many Americans have images from popular books and movies, like ``To Kill a Mockingbird,'' that cloud their understanding of lynching. A group of angry White men take an accused and presumed guilty Black man deep into the woods and hang him. Those are the images, although accurate and tragic, but they delude us from the true nature of lynching in this dark period of American history.

   The thought of a small, angry mob murdering Black prisoners in the dead of night ignores the reality of lynching in most respects. We are fortunate and grateful that a passionate and resolute independent scholar named James Allen saw something catalytic in the photographic evidence of lynching, and he began to collect these gruesome and horrific photographs. His work, ``Without Sanctuary,'' showed the real faces of lynching, and the images he unveiled began to change the way people viewed these tragic events and called to several of us in the Senate to issue this apology tonight. It is because of his work, this book, that the Committee for a Formal Apology and the families of the lynching victims--and some victims themselves who are here--are here today and that this important historic resolution is before the Senate.

   I would like to show some of these photographs now. This is one of the hundreds--thousands of photographs of men, women, and children who were lynched in this Nation, lynching that occurred--a citizen of our Nation, lynched. As your eyes look at this picture, they are immediately drawn to the victim. These hangings were sometimes--in most instances--very brutal events. Sometimes the hanging itself came after hours of torture and just excruciating fear and humiliation.

   After this book was published and these pictures came into more full view of the American public, what happens is your eyes leave the figure of the victim and move to the audience. This is part of the story that, in my mind, has not been completely told, and it needs to be told tonight and every day into the future.

   As you can see, there are children gathered here. These are children looking up at this man hanging from a tree. History will record that some of these children were let out of Sunday schools to attend the lynchings. History will record that some businesses closed down so that the whole town could attend these lynchings. History will record that these lynchings did not occur mostly at night or in the back woods or across the levees--lynchings were a community event. In many instances, it was a form of public entertainment. It was mass violence, an open act of terrorism directed primarily against African Americans and others who sympathized with their cause.

   If we are truly to understand the magnitude of this tragedy, we must study the stories behind this grim parade of death.

   In March of 1892, three personal friends of Ida B. Wells opened the ``People's Grocery Company,'' a store located across the street from a White-owned grocery store that had previously been the only grocer in the area. Angered by the loss of business, a mob gathered to run the new grocers out of town. Forewarned about the attack on their store, the three owners armed themselves for protection, and in the riot that ensued, one of the businessmen injured a White man. All three were arrested and jailed. Days later, the mob kidnapped the men from jail and lynched them. This was the case that led Ida B. Wells to begin to speak out against this injustice.

   Her great grandson is with us today. He has told this story through the halls of Congress to give testimony to her life and to her courage and to her historic efforts. Without the work of this extraordinarily brave journalist, this story never really could have been told in the way it is being told now, today, and talked about here on the Senate floor. To her, we owe a great deal of gratitude. She knew these men personally. She knew they were businessmen. They were not criminals. She knew they were successful salespeople, not common thugs. And she wrote and she spoke and she tried to gather pictures to tell a story to a nation that simply refused to believe.

   Forty-two years and thousands of lynchings later is the case of Claude Neal of Marianna, FL. After 10 hours of torture, Claude Neal ``confessed'' to the murder of a girl with whom he was allegedly having an affair.

   For his safety, he was transferred to an Alabama prison. A mob took him from there. They cut off his body parts. They sliced his side and stomach. People would randomly cut off a finger here, a toe there. From time to time, they would tie a noose around him, throw the rope over a tree limb. The mob would keep him there in that position until he almost died then lower him again to begin the torment all over.

   After several hours, and I guess the crowd exhausted themselves, they just decided to kill him. His body was then dragged by car back to Marianna, and 7,000 people from 11 States were there to see his body in the courthouse of the town square. Pictures were taken and sold for 50 cents a piece.

   One might ask, how do we know all the grizzly details of Claude Neal's death? It is very simple. The newspapers in Florida had given advance notice. They recorded it one horrible moment after another. One of the members of the lynch mob proudly relayed all the details that reporters had missed in person. Yet, even with the public notice, 7,000 people in attendance, and people bragging about the activity, Federal authorities were impotent to stop this murder. State authorities seemed to condone it, and the Senate of the United States refused to act.

   Time went on. In 1955, just 9 years before Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, the world witnessed the brutal lynching of Emmett Till. Fourteen

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   Once there, he and some friends went to buy some candy at the general store. According to his accusers, this young 14-year-old whistled at a store clerk as he left. She happened to be a white woman.

   Armed with pistols, the mob took Emmett from his uncle's home. His uncle is with us tonight. They took him in the middle of the night. Three days later his little body was discovered in the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a 75-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. His face was so mutilated when Wright identified the body he could only do so based on the ring that he had been wearing.

   Coincidentally, through no asking of our own, but I guess it is appropriate, the trial of his accused murderer, Edgar Ray Killen, begins today in Mississippi.

   While the details that led to the lynching are not always clear from just these few that I have described, there is little doubt what took place at the lynchings themselves. In most instances, prelynching newspaper notices, school closings to allow children to view the spectacle, special order trains to carry people to the event, are all part of a gruesome but true part of America's history.

   Jazz legend Billy Holiday provided real texture in her story and song ``Strange Fruit.'' She defied her own record label and produced and published the song on her own, was threatened with her life because she continued to sing it. But like so many things, words can't always describe what is happening, even though speeches were given, words were written, newspapers were published.

   The words to the song are as follows:
 

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
 

Pastoral scene of the gallant South,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh,
And the sudden smell of burning flesh.
 

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop,
Here is a strange and a bitter crop.

   Something in the way she sang this song, something in the pictures that described the event, must have touched the heart of Americans because they began to mobilize, and men and women, White and Black, people from different backgrounds, came to stand up and begin to speak. They spoke with loud voices and with moving speeches and with great marches.

   But the Senate of the United States, one of the most noble experiments in democracy, continued to pretend, to act like this was not happening in America and continued to fail to act.

   It would be a mistake to look at this ugly chapter in our democracy's development with pity and hopelessness, however. The truth is, today's apology should be seen as a tribute to the endurance and the triumph of African-American families.

   There is a particular family here, the Crawford family. I think there are over 150 of them. Earlier today I talked with some of the leaders of the family. I said: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. They nodded because that is exactly what happened to this family. The town tried to kill this family, to run them out, and, in fact, ran them out of the town, but this family just grew stronger, and with their love and lack of bitterness, but with a determination to find justice some way, they are here today. In fact, it was the progress of African Americans that spurred this terrible reaction to them in the first place.

   As I stated earlier, the early lynchings were not of criminals. The early lynchings were of successful farmers, of successful businessmen, leaders in their communities because these lynchings were an act of terrorism to make American citizens feel they had no voice and no place.

   W.E.B. Dubois summarized the motivation behind these slayings perfectly when he said:

    ..... [T]he South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance and incompetency, Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

   With slavery abolished by the Civil War, a group of Americans had to mentally justify as inferior and subhuman those who suddenly were equals and competitors. Having lost the war throughout the South, watching the progress of former slaves was simply too much in that region and in other regions throughout the country, as well.

   As a senior Senator from the State of Louisiana, I feel compelled to spend just a few moments, before I acknowledge my friend and cosponsor in the Senate, Senator GEORGE ALLEN, who has brought this resolution to the attention of our Senate colleagues.

   Louisiana has a distinct history from much of the United States due to its long colonial ties with both France and Spain. One consequence of this history is that Louisiana had more free people of color than any other Southern State. Nearly 20,000 Louisianians who were largely concentrated in New Orleans formed a large and very prosperous African-American community in the 1860s. They enjoyed more rights than most free men of color. A large percentage spoke only French and educated their children in Europe. The community, the records show, owned more than $2 million worth of property, which was quite a large sum in those days, and dominated skilled labor areas such as masonry, carpentry, cigar making, and shoemaking.

   That is why Louisiana's prominent role in lynchings is so bitter. It mars a long history of tolerance and integration that to this day distinguishes Louisiana from other places in the South.

   Still the difficult fact remains that only three States have had a higher incidence than Louisiana of these occurrences. The NAACP, which was founded over the issue of lynchings, recorded 391 such murders in my State.

   I ask unanimous consent that a list of all the Louisiana victims compiled by Professor Michael Pfeifer, author of ``Rough Justice, Lynching and American Society,'' be printed in the RECORD.

   There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

List of Louisiana Victims

•    April 24, 1878, Unidentified Man, Unidentified Sugar Parish, Arson, Unknown, Unknown.
•    July 30, 1878, Jim Beaty, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Unknown, Black, Private.
•    July 30, 1878, Ples Phillips, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Unknown, Black, Private.
•    July 30, 1878, Tom Ross, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Unknown, Black, Private.
•    July 30, 1878, Henry Atkinson, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Unknown, Black, Private.
•    September 14, 1878, Valcour St. Martin, Hahnville, St. Charles Parish, Murder, Unknown, Unknown.
•    October, 1878, Joshua Hall, Ouachita Parish, Unknown, Black, Mass.
•    October, 1878, Sam Wallace, Ouachita Parish, Unknown, Black, Mass.
•    November 5, 1878, Unidentified Man, Ouachita Parish, Unknown, Black, Unknown.
•    November 5, 1878, Unidentified Man, Ouachita Parish, Unknown, Black, Unknown.
•    November 5, 1878, Unidentified Man, Ouachita Parish, Unknown, Black, Unknown.
•    November 5, 1878, Unidentified Man, Ouachita Parish, Unknown, Black, Unknown.
•    November 5, 1878, Unidentified Man, Ouachita Parish, Unknown, Black, Unknown.
•    December 3, 1878, Moustand, Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Private.
•    December 15, 1878, Victor Bryan, New Roads, Pointe Coupee Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    September 1, 1879, George Williams, Ouachita Parish, Threats Against White, Black, Private.
•    August 20, 1879, Ed. Rabun, Shiloh, Union Parish, Attempt to Rape, Black, Unknown.
•    October 29, 1879, W.J. Overstreet, Farmerville, Union Parish, Murder, White, Mass.
•    December 28, 1879, Dick Smith, Amite City, Tangipahoa Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    December 28, 1879, Geo. Carroll, Amite City, Tangipahoa Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    December 28, 1879, Harrison Johnson, Amite City, Tangipahoa Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    December 28, 1879, Unknown, Amite City, Tangipahoa Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
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•    November 20, 1880, Thornhill, Many, Sabine Parish, Horse Theft, White, Private.
•    November 20, 1880, Fields, Many, Sabine Parish, Horse Theft, White, Private.
•    January 6, 1880, James Brown, Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, Murder, White, Private.
•    April 1, 1880, J. Tucker, Greensburg, St. Helena Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    December, 1880, Dr. Jones, East Carroll Parish, Political Causes, Unknown, Unknown.
•    December 20, 1880, Garnett Thompson, West Feliciana Parish, Insulted and Shot White Man, Black, Unknown.
•    May 15, 1881, Cherry Nickols, Mount Lebanon, Bienville Parish, Murder and Rape, Black, Private (Mixed or Black).
•    July 19, 1881, Unidentified Man, Kingston, De Soto Parish, Murder and Robbery, Black, Private.
•    July 20, 1881, Unidentified Man, Lincoln Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Unknown.
•    July 17, 1881, Spence, Frog Level, Caddo Parish, Attempted Criminal Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    August 22, 1881, Alec Wilson, Ouachita Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    August 22, 1881, Perry Munson, Ouachita Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    August 31, 1881, Caleb Jackson, Vernon, Jackson Parish, Arson, Black, Unknown.
•    September 26, 1881, Ben Robertson, Jeanerette, Iberia Parish, Theft, Black, Private.
•    November 17, 1881, Stanley, Pointe Coupee Parish, Murderous Assault, White, Private.
•    May 15, 1882, Joseph Jenkins, St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Murder, White, Unknown.
•    May 15, 1882, Eugene Azar, St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    June 20, 1882, Ingram, St. Tammany Parish, Desperado, Unknown, Unknown.
•    June 20, 1882, Howard, St. Tammany Parish, Desperado, Unknown, Unknown.
•    June 20, 1882, Mack Taylor, Webster Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Mass.
•    October 28, 1882, Wm. Harris, Lincoln Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Posse.
•    November 7, 1882, Unidentified Man, Vienna, Lincoln Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    November 7, 1882, Unidentified Man, Vienna, Lincoln Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    November 18, 1882, N. David Lee, Holly Grove, Franklin Parish, Hog Theft, Black, Private.
•    December 8, 1882, Tim Robinson, Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    December 8, 1882, Wm. Cephas, Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    December 8, 1882, Wesley Andrews, Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    January 23, 1883, Henry Solomon, Bellevue, Bossier Parish, Arson, Horse Theft, Black, Private.
•    May 13, 1883, D.C. Hutchins, Bellevue, Bossier Parish, Murder, White, Mass.
•    July 9, 1883, Henderson Lee, Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Larceny, Black, Private.
•    October 12, 1883, Louis Woods, Edgerly Station, Calcasieu Parish, Rape, Black, Unknown.
•    April 27, 1884, John Mullican, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Murder and Robbery, White, Mass.
•    April 27, 1884, John Clark, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Murder and Robbery/White, Mass.
•    April 27, 1884, King Hill, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Murder, Unknown, Mass.
•    October 21, 1884, Charles McLean, Bellevue, Bossier Parish, Arson, White, Private.
•    October 24, 1884, Unidentified Man, St. Tammany Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    October 24, 1884, Unidentified Man, St. Tammany Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    October 24, 1884, Unidentified Man, St. Tammany Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    October 24, 1884, Unidentified Man, St. Tammany Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    December 22, 1884, Wm. Fleitas, Madisonville, St. Tammany Parish, Murderous Assault, White, Unknown.
•    January 1, 1885, Unidentified Man, Madison Parish, Trainwrecking, Unknown, Unknown.
•    January 1, 1885, Unidentified Man, Madison Parish, Trainwrecking, Unknown, Unknown.
•    March 5, 1885, Unidentified Man, St. Landry Parish, Murder, Unknown, Private.
•    March 5, 1885, Unidentified Man, St. Landry Parish, Murder, Unknown, Private.
•    April 22, 1885, Abe Jones, New Roads, Pointe Coupee Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    April 22, 1885, William Pierce Mabry, near Shiloh, Union Parish, Defended Black Woman from Beating, White, Unknown.
•    July 22, 1885, Cicero Green, Minden, Webster Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Mass.
•    July 22, 1885, John Figures, Minden, Webster Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
•    September 30, 1885, Sampson Harris, Winn Parish, Threat to Give Evidence against Whitecappers, Black Terrorist.
•    February 16, 1886, George Robinson, Monroe, Onachita Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
•    May 6, 1886, Robert Smith, St. Bernard Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    October 18, 1886, Reeves Smith, De Soto Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Mass.
•    December 28, 1886, John Elia, Arcadia, Bienville Parish, Murder, White, Private.
•    January 8, 1887, Ike Brumfield, Tangipahoa Parish, Unknown, Black, Unknown.
•    April 28, 1887, Gracy Blanton, Floyd, West Carroll Parish, Arson and Robbery, Black, Private.
•    April 28, 1887, Richard Goodwin, Floyd, West Carroll Parish, Arson and Robbery, Black, Private.
•    June 6, 1887, M.W. Washington, De Soto Parish, Burglary with Intent to Rape, Black, Unknown.
•    June 30, 1887, James Walden, Simsboro, Lincoln Parish, Larceny, Black, Private.
•    August 9, 1887, Thomas Scott, Morehouse Parish, Murder, White, Private.
•    August 11, 1887, Daniel Pleasants (alias Hoskins), Harding Plantation, St. Mary Parish, Murder, Black, Posse (Mixed).
•    August 13, 1887, Green Hosley, Union Parish, Asserted Self-Respect in Dispute with White, Black, Private.
•    October 20, 1887, Perry King, Lamar, Franklin Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Mass.
•    October 20, 1887, Drew Green, Lamar, Franklin Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Mass.
•    November 7, 1887, Unidentified Man, Caddo Parish, Miscegenation, Black, Unknown.
•    December 9, 1887, Andrew Edwards, near Minden, Webster Parish, Voodoism, Black, Private (Black).
•    January 28, 1888, Ben Edwards, Amite City, Tangipahoa Parish, Criminal Assault, Black, Mass.
•    February 9, 1888, Unidentified Man, Ponchatoula, Tangipahoa Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Private.
•    May 6, 1888, Dave Southall, Pointe Coupee Parish, Attempted Murder and Political Causes, White, Private.
•    September, 1888, Unidentified Woman, Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, Unknown, Black, Terrorist.
•    September 17, 1888, Louis Alfred (Jean Pierre Salet), Ville Platte, St. Landry (now Evangeline) Parish, Incendiary Language, Black, Terrorist.
•    September 17, 1888, Jno. Johnson (Sidairo), Ville Platte, St. Landry (now Evangeline) Parish, Incendiary Language, Black, Terrorist.
•    November 9, 1888, Lulin, St. Landry Parish, Unknown, Black, Terrorist.
•    November 13, 1888, Unidentified Man, Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, Rape, Black, Mass.
•    November 22, 1888, Jerry Taylor, St. Helena Parish, Rape, Black, Private.
•    January 25, 1889, Samuel Wakefield, New Iberia, Iberia Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    January 29, 1889, James Rosemond, New Iberia, Iberia Parish, Theft, Black, Private.
•    February 8, 1889, Haygood Handy, near Bellevue, Bossier Parish, Murder and Hog Stealing, Black, Unknown.
•    April 14, 1889, Steve. McIntosh, Magenta Plantation, Bayou Desiard, Ouachita Parish, Rape, Unknown, Unknown (Black).
•    April 16, 1889, Hector Junior, near New Iberia, Iberia Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Posse.
•    May 18, 1889, Unidentified Man, near Columbia, Caldwell Parish, Burglary, Black, Unknown.
•    July 11, 1889, Felix Keys, Lafayette Parish, Murder, Black, Mass (Mixed).
•    November 16, 1889, Ed Gray, Vidalia, Concordia Parish, Arson, Black, Private.
•    December 31, 1889, Henry Holmes, Bossier Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    January 8, 1890, Henry Ward, Bayou Sara, West Feliciana Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    February 18, 1890, R.F. Emerson, St. Joseph, Tensas Parish, Murderous Assault, White, Unknown.
•    May 13, 1890, Phillip Williams, Napoleonville, Assumption Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Mass.
•    June 16, 1890, George Swayze, East Feliciana Parish, Political Causes, White, Private (Possibly Black).
•    June 26, 1890, John Coleman, Caddo Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown (Black).
•    August 21, 1890, Wml. Alexander, East Baton Rouge Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Private.
•    October 12, 1890, Frank Wooten, Claiborne Parish, Arson, Black, Unknown.
•    November 20, 1890, Unidentified Man, southeastern East Baton Rouge Parish, Bulldozing, Black, Terrorist.
•    March 14, 1891, Antoino Scoffedi, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Conspiracy to Murder, Italian, Mass (Mixed).
•    March 14, 1891, Joseph Macheca, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Conspiracy to Murder, Italian, Mass (Mixed).
•    March 14, 1891, Pietro Monasterio, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Conspiracy to Murder, Italian, Mass (Mixed).
•    March 14, 1891, James Caruso, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Conspiracy to Murder, Italian, Mass (Mixed).
•    March 14, 1891, Rocco Gerachi, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Conspiracy to Murder, Italian, Mass (Mixed).
•    March 14, 1891, Frank Romero, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Conspiracy to Murder, Italian, Mass (Mixed).
•    March 14, 1891, Antonio Marchesi, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Conspiracy to Murder, Italian, Mass (Mixed).
•    March 14, 1891, Charles Traina, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Conspiracy to Murder, Italian, Mass (Mixed).
•    March 14, 1891, Loretto Comitz, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Conspiracy to Murder, Italian, Mass (Mixed).
•    March 14, 1891, Antonio Bagnetto, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Conspiracy to Murder, Italian, Mass (Mixed).
•    March 14, 1891, Manuel Politz, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Conspiracy to Murder, Italian, Mass (Mixed).
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•    May 21, 1891, Tennis Hampton, Gibsland, Bienville Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    May 23, 1891, William Anderson, Caddo Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    May 23, 1891, John Anderson, Caddo Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    June 2, 1891, Samuel Hummell, Hermitage, Pointe Coupee Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    June 2, 1891, Alex Campbell, Hermitage, Pointe Coupee Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    June 2, 1891, Unidentified Man, Hermitage, Pointe Coupee Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    September 8, 1891, Unidentified Man, near Arcadia, Bienville Parish, Rape, Black, Posse.
•    October 19, 1891, John Rush, Caldwell Parish, Murder, White, Private.
•    October 28, 1891, Jack Parker, Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Murder, Black, Mass (Black).
•    October 29, 1891, Unidentified Man, ``the Poole place,'' Bossier Parish, Outrageous Act, Black, Mass (Mixed).
•    November 4, 1891, J.T. Smith, near Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
•    November 4, 1891, W.S. Felton, near Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
•    November 10, 1891, John Cagle, near Homer, Claiborne Parish, ``Bad Negro,'' Black, Unknown.
•    November 27, 1891, John Maxey, Many, Sabine Parish, Criminal Assault, Black, Private.
•    December 27, 1891, Unidentified Man, Black Water Plantation, Concordia Parish, Accessory to Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    January 7, 1892, Horace Dishroon, Rayville, Richland Parish, Murder, Robbery, Black, Mass.
•    January 7, 1892, Eli Foster, Rayville, Richland Parish, Murder, Robbery, Black, Mass.
•    January 9, 1892, Nathan Andrews, Bossier Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    January 11, 1892, Undentified Man, Bossier Parish, Murder, Robbery, Black, Private (Black).
•    March 12, 1892, Ella, near Rayville, Richland Parish, Attempted Murder, Black, Private.
•    March 26, 1892, Dennis Cobb, Bienville Parish, Unknown, Black, Terrorist.
•    March 27, 1892, Jack Tillman, Jefferson Parish, Argued with and Shot White Men, Black, Terrorist.
•    April 6, 1892, Unidentified Man, Grant Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    April 6, 1892, Unidentified Man, Grant Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    April 6, 1892, Unidentified Man, Grant Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    April 6, 1892, Unidentified Man, Grant Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    April 23, 1892, Free1an, Pointe Coupee Parish, Murder and Extortion, White, Posse.
•    May 28, 1892, Walker, Bienville Parish, Improper Relations with White Girl, Black, Unknown.
•    September 2, 1892, Edward Laurent, Avoyelles Parish, Aiding Murderer, Black, Terrorist.
•    September 5, 1892, Gabriel Magliore, Avoyelles Parish, Threats to Kill, Black, Terrorist.
•    September 7, 1892, Henry Dixon, Jefferson Parish, Murder, Theft, Black, Private.
•    September 13, 1892, Eli Lindsey, Morehouse Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown (Black).
•    September 27, 1892, Benny Walkers, Concordia Parish, Attempted Criminal Assault, Black, Mass.
•    October 21, 1892, Thomas Courtney, Iberville Parish, Shot Man, Black, Posse.
•    November 1, 1892, Daughter of Hastings, Catahoula Parish, Daughter of Murderer, Black, Private.
•    November 1, 1892, Son of Hastings, Catahoula Parish, Son of Murderer, Black, Private.
•    Noevmber 4, 1892, John Hastings, Catahoula Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    November 29, 1892, Richard Magee, Bossier Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    November 29, 1892, Carmichael, Bossier Parish, Complicity in Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    December 28, 1892, Lewis Fox, St. Charles Parish, Murder, Robbery, Black, Private.
•    Decmber 28, 1892, Adam Gripson, St. Charles Parish, Murder, Robbery, Black, Private.
•    January 8, 1893, Unidentified Man, Union Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    January 20, 1893, Robert Landry, St. James Parish, Murder, Robbery, Black, Private.
•    January 20, 1893, Chicken George, St. James Parish, Murder, Robbery, Black, Private.
•    January 20, 1893, Richard Davis, St. James Parish, Murder, Robbery, Black, Private.
•    January 25, 1893, Wm. Fisher, Orleans Parish, Stabbing of White Woman, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    May 6, 1893, Israel Holloway, Assumption Parish, Rape, Black, Unknown.
•    July 13, 1893, Meredith Lewis, Tangipahoa Parish, Murder, Black, Private (Black).
•    September 16, 1893, Valsin Julian, Jefferson Parish, Brother of Murderer, Black, Private.
•    September 16, 1893, Paul Julian, Jefferson Parish, Brother of Murderer, Black, Private.
•    September 16, 1893, Basile Julian, Jefferson Parish, Brother of Murderer, Black, Private.
•    September 29, 1893, Henry Coleman, Bossier Parish, Attempted Assassination, Black, Mass.
•    October 19, 1893, Unidentified Man, Bossier Parish, Stock Theft, Black, Unknown (Mixed).
•    October 19, 1893, Unidentified Man, Bossier Parish, Stock Theft, Black, Unknown (Mixed).
•    December 27, 1893, Tillman Green, Caldwell Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Private.
•    January 18, 1894, Unidentified Man, West Feliciana Parish, Arson and Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    April 23, 1894, Samuel Slaughter, Madison Parish, Murder and Insurrection, Black, Mass.
•    April 23, 1894, Thomas Claxton, Madison Parish, Murder and Insurrection, Black, Mass.
•    April 23, 1894, David Hawkins, Madison Parish, Murder and Insurrection, Black, Mass.
•    April 27, 1894, Shell Claxton, Madison Parish, Murder and Insurrection, Black, Mass.
•    April 27, 1894, Tony McCoy, Madison Parish, Murder and Insurrection, Black, Mass.
•    April 27, 1894, Pomp Claxton, Madison Parish, Murder and Insurrection, Black, Mass.
•    April 27, 1894, Scott Harvey, Madison Parish, Murder and Insurrection, Black, Mass.
•    May 23, 1894, George Paul, Pointe Coupee Parish, Offended White Man, Black, Unknown.
•    June 10, 1894, Mark Jacobs, Bienville Parish, Unknown, Black, Terrorist.
•    June 14, 1894, John Day, Ouachita Parish, Arson, White, Unknown.
•    July 23, 1894, Vance McClure, Iberia Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Private.
•    September 9, 1894, Link Waggoner, Webster Parish, Murderous Assault, White, Private.
•    September 10, 1894, Robert Williams, Concordia Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown (Black).
•    November 9, 1894, Charlie Williams, West Carroll Parish, Murder and Robbery, Latino, Unknown.
•    November 9, 1894, Lawrence Younger, West Carroll Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    December 23, 1894, George King, St. Bernard Parish, Threat to Kill and Resisted Arrest and Shot at Whites, Black, Mass.
•    December 28, 1894, Scott Sherman, Concordia Parish, Brother of Murderer, Black, Posse (Possibly Black).
•    June 24, 1895, John Frey, Jefferson Parish, Arson, White, Private.
•    July 19, 1895, Ovide Belizaire, Lafayette Parish, Shot at Whites, Black, Terrorist.
•    September 18, 1895, Unidentified Man, Bossier Parish, Rape, Black, Mass.
•    September 21, 1895, Edward Smith, Tangipahoa Parish, Murder and Robbery, Black, Mass.
•    September 25, 1895, Aleck Francis, Jefferson Parish, Dangerous Character, Black, Private.
•    January 10, 1896, Abraham Smart, Ouachita Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    January 12, 1896, Charlotte Morris, Jefferson Parish, Miscegenation, Black, Private.
•    January 12, 1896, Patrick Morris, Jefferson Parish, Miscegenation, White, Private.
•    February 28, 1896, Gilbert Francis, St. James Parish, Rape and Burglary, Black, Private.
•    February 28, 1896, Paul Francis, St. James Parish, Rape and Burglary, Black, Private.
•    March 11, 1896, Bud Love, Morehouse Parish, Theft, Black, Private.
•    March 24, 1896, Louis Senegal, Lafayette Parish, Rape, Black, Private.
•    May 17, 1896, Unidentified Man, Bossier Parish, Insulted White Woman, Black, Posse.
•    May 19, 1896, James Dandy, St. Bernard Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Private.
•    June 9, 1896, Wallis Starks, St. Mary Parish, Rape and Robbery, Black, Posse.
•    July 11, 1896, James Porter, Webster Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    July 11, 1896, Monch Dudley, Webster Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    July 24, 1896, Isom McGee, Claiborne Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Unknown.
•    July 31, 1896, Louis Mullens, Avoyelles Parish, Attempted Rape, White, Private.
•    August 4, 1896, Hiram Weightman, Franklin Parish, Murder and Rape, Black, Mass.
•    August 8, 1896, Lorenzo Saladino, St. Charles Parish, Murder and Robbery, Italian, Mass.
•    August 8, 1896, DeCino Sorcoro, St. Charles Parish, Murder and Robbery, Italian, Mass.
•    August 8, 1896, Angelo Marcuso, St. Charles Parish, Murder and Robbery, Italian, Mass.
•    September 12, 1896, Jones McCauley, Ouachita Parish, Sexual Assault, Black, Unknown (Mixed or Black).
•    September 24, 1896, Jim Hawkins, Jefferson Parish, Assaulted Boy, Black, Private.
•    October 1, 1896, Lewis Hamilton, Bossier Parish, Arson, Black, Unknown.
•    December 22, 1896, Jerry Burke, Livingston Parish, Attempted Murder, Black, Posse.
•    January 17, 1897, Unidentified Man, Iberville Parish, Attempted Murder and Robbery, Black, Unknown.
•    January 19, 1897, Gustave Williams, Tangipahoa Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
•    January 19, 1897, Archie Joiner, Tangipahoa Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
•    January 19, 1897, John Johnson, Tangipahoa Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
•    May 11, 1897, Charles Johnson, East Feliciana Parish, Attempted Trainwrecking, Black, Private.
•    July 21, 1897, Jack Davis, St. Mary Parish, Criminal Assault, Black, Posse.
•    September 28,1897, Wm. Oliver, Jefferson Parish, Ferry Law Violation and Dangerous Weapon Charge, Black, Private.
•    October 2, 1897, Wash Ferren, Ouachita Parish, Rape, Black, Mass.
•    October 15, 1897, Douglas Boutte, Jefferson Parish, Violated Quarantine and Resisted Arrest, Black, Private.
•    December 13, 1897, Joseph Alexander, Iberville Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
•    December 13, 1897, Charles Alexander, Iberville Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
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•    Decmber 13, 1897, James Thomas, Iberville Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
•    April 2, 1898, Wm. Bell, Tangipahoa Parish, Accessory to Murder, Black, Private.
•    April 23, 1898, Columbus Lewis, Lincoln Parish, Impudence to White Man, Black, Private.
•    June 4, 1898, Wm. Steake, Webster Parish, Rape, Black, Mass.
•    June 11, 1898, Unidentified Man, Morehouse Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Posse.
•    November 3, 1898, Charles Morrell, St. John Parish, Robbery, Black, Private.
•    December 5, 1898, Bedney Hearn, Bossier Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    December 5, 1898, John Richardson, Bossier Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    June 14, 1899, Edward Gray, St. John Parish, Burglary, Black, Private.
•    July 11, 1899, George Jones, St. Charles Parish, Horse Theft, Black, Private (Black).
•    July 21, 1899, Joseph Cereno, Madison Parish, Shooting Man, Italian, Mass.
•    July 21, 1899, Charles Defatta, Madison Parish, Shooting Man, Italian, Mass.
•    July 21, 1899, Frank Defatta, Madison Parish, Shooting Man, Italian, Mass.
•    July 21, 1899, Joseph Defatta, Madison Parish, Shooting Man, Italian, Mass.
•    July 21, 1899, Sy Defrroch, Madison Parish, Shooting Man, Italian, Mass.
•    August 2, 1899, Man Singleton, Grant Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Unknown.
•    Augsut 8, 1899, Echo Brown, Tangipahoa Parish, Unknown, Black, Unknown.
•    October 10, 1899, Basile LaPlace, St. Charles Parish, Political Causes and Illicit Liaison, White, Private.
•    October 15, 1899, James Smith, East Feliciana Parish, Cattle Rustling and Desperadoism, White, Private.
•    December 13, 1899, Unidentified Man, Morehouse Parish, Rape, Unknown.
•    April 21, 1900, John Humely, Bossier Parish, Conspiracy to Murder, Black, Mass.
•    April 21, 1900, Edward Amos, Bossier Parish, Conspiracy to Murder, Black, Mass.
•    May 12, 1900, Henry Harris, Rapides Parish, Attempted Criminal Assault, Black, Mass.
•    June 12, 1900, Ned Cobb, West Baton Rouge Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    June 23, 1900, Frank Gilmour, Livingston Parish, Murder, White, Private.
•    August 29, 1900, Thomas Amos, Rapides Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
•    September 21, 1900, George Beckham, Tangipahoa Parish, Robbery, Black, Private.
•    September 21, 1900, Nathaniel Bowmam, Tangipahoa Parish, Robbery, Black, Private.
•    September 21, 1900, Charles Elliot, Tangipahoa Parish, Robbery, Black, Private.
•    September 21, 1900, Izaih Rollins, Tangipahoa Parish, Robbery, Black, Private.
•    October 19, 1900, Melby Dotson, West Baton Rouge Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
•    January 24, 1901, Larkington, Webster Parish, Attempted Criminal Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    February 17, 1901, Thomas Jackson, St. John Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
•    February 21, 1901, Thomas Vital, Calcasieu Parish, Criminal Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    February 21, 1901, Samuel Thibodaux, Calcasieu Parish, Defending Rapist, Black, Unknown.
•    March 6, 1901, William Davis, Caddo Parish, Rape, Black, Private.
•    May 1, 1901, Grant Johnson, Bossier Parish, Desperate Negro Gambler, Black, Private.
•    May 3, 1901, Felton Brigman, Caddo Parish, Rape, Black, Private (Black).
•    June 19, 1901, F.D. Frank Smith, Bossier Parish, Complicity in Murder, Black, Mass.
•    June 19, 1901, F.D. McLand, Bossier Parish, Complicity in Murder, Black, Mass.
•    July 15, 1901, Lewis Thomas, Richland Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    July 19, 1901, Unidentified Man, Acadia Parish, Homicide, Shot Officer, Black, Posse.
•    October 25, 1901, Wm. Morris, Washington Parish, Assault and Robbery, Black, Unknown.
•    November 2, 1901, Connelly, Washington Parish, Threats Against Whites, Black, Posse.
•    November 2, 1901, Parker, Washington Parish, Threats Against Whites, Black, Posse.
•    November 2, 1901, Low, Washington Parish, Threats Against Whites, Black, Posse.
•    November 2, 1901, Connelly's Daughter, Washington Parish, Threats Against Whites, Black, Posse.
•    November 2, 1901, Woman, Washington Parish, Threats Against Whites, Black, Posse.
•    November 2, 1901, Child, Washington Parish, Threats Against Whites, Black, Posse.
•    November 2, 1901, Unidentified Person, Washington Parish, Threats Against Whites, Black, Posse.
•    November 24, 1901, Frank Thomas, Bossier Parish, Murder, Black, Mass (Black).
•    December 8, 1901, Sol Paydras, Calcasieu Parish, Assault, Black, Private.
•    January 25, 1902, Unidentified Man, West Carroll Parish, Murder and Theft, Black, Posse.
•    January 25, 1902, Unidentified Man, West Carroll Parish, Murder and Theft, Black, Posse.
•    January 25, 1902, Unidentified Man, West Carroll Parish, Murder and Theft, Black, Posse.
•    March 19, 1902, John Woodward, Concordia Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    March 31, 1902, George Franklin Carroll Parish, Murder Black, Posse Unknown.
•    April 12, 1902, Unidentified Man, Natchitoches Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    May 4, 1902, John Simms, Morehouse Parish, Complicity in Murder, White, Unknown.
•    May 9, 1902, Nicholas Deblanc, Iberia Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Posse.
•    August 7, 1902, Henry Benton, Claiborne Parish, Criminal Assault, Black, Posse.
•    October 13, 1902, Unidentified Man, Calcasieu Parish, Attempted Murder, Black, Posse.
•    November 25, 1902, Joseph Lamb, West Feliciana Parish, Attempted Robbery and Criminal Assault, Black, Private.
•    January 26, 1903, John Thomas, St. Charles Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    February 24, 1903, Jim Brown, Bossier Parish, Attempted Murder, Black, Posse.
•    March 27, 1903, Frank Robertson, Bossier Parish, Arson, Black, Unknown.
•    June 12, 1903, Frank Dupree, Rapides Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    June 25, 1903, Lamb Whitley, Catahoula Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    July 26, 1903, Jennie Steer, Caddo Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    October 18, 1903, George Kennedy, Bossier Parish, Attempt to Kill, Black, Posse.
•    November 2, 1903, Joseph Craddock, Bossier Parish, Murder, Black, Mass (Black).
•    November 30, 1903, Walter Carter, Caddo Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Mass.
•    November 30, 1903, Phillip Davis, Caddo Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Mass.
•    November 30, 1903, Clinton Thomas, Caddo Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Mass.
•    January 14, 1904, Butch Riley, Madison Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    May 29, 1904, Frank Pipes, Rapides Parish, Shooting Man, Black, Private.
•    April 26, 1905, Richard Craighead, Claiborne Parish, Murder, White, Mass.
•    June 1, 1905, Henry Washington, Pointe Coupee Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    August 12, 1905, Unidentified Man, Jackson Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Posse.
•    November 26, 1905, Monroe Williams, Tangipahoa Parish, Criminal Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    February 24, 1906, Willis Page, Bienville Parish, Rape, Black, Mass.
•    March 18, 1906, Wm. Carr, Iberville Parish, Theft, Black, Private.
•    March 28, 1906, Cotton, West Carroll Parish, Attempted Criminal Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    May 6, 1906, George Whitner, East Feliciana Parish, Insulted White Woman, Black, Unknown.
•    May 22, 1906, Thomas Jackson, Caddo Parish, Robbery, Black, Private.
•    May 29, 1906, Robert Rogers, Madison Parish, Murder, White, Private.
•    July 11, 1906, Unidentified Man, Claiborne Parish, Attempted Criminal Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    August 26, 1906, Alfred Schaufriet, Ouachita Parish, Attempted Criminal Assault, Black, Posse.
•    November 25, 1906, Antone Domingue, Lafayette Parish, Fought Whitecappers, Black, Terrorist.
•    March 15, 1907, Flint Williams, Ouachita Parish, Murder, Murderous Assault, Robbery, Black, Unknown.
•    March 15, 1907, Henry Gardner, Ouachita Parish, Murder and Murderous Assault and Robbery and Rape, Black, Unknown.
•    April 16, 1907, Charles Straus, Avoyelles Parish, Attempted Criminal Assault, Black, Private.
•    April 18, 1907, Frederick Kilbourne, East Feliciana Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Mass.
•    May 3, 1907, Silas Faly, Bossier Parish, Rape, Black, Unknown.
•    June 1, 1907, Henry Johnson, Rapides Parish, Attempted Criminal Assault, Black, Private.
•    June 8, 1907, James Wilson, Claiborne Parish, Attempted Criminal Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    June 27, 1907, Ralph Dorans, Rapides Parish, Rape, Black, Unknown.
•    June 28, 1907, Mathias Jackson, Rapides Parish, Rape, Black, Private.
•    December 5, 1907, Unidentified Man, Morehouse Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    December 15, 1907, Unidentified Man, Jackson Parish, Being an Italian Worker, Italian, Unknown.
•    December 15, 1907, Unidentified Man, Jackson Parish, Being an Italian Worker, Italian, Unknown.
•    February 6, 1908, Robert Mitchell, West Carroll Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
•    June 4, 1908, Bird Cooper, Claiborne Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    July 16, 1908, Miller Gaines, Catahoula Parish, Arson, Black, Unknown.
•    July 16, 1908, Sam Gaines, Catahoula Parish, Arson, Black, Unknown.
•    July 16, 1908, Albert Godlin, Catahoula Parish, Inciting Arson, Black, Unknown.
•    July 26, 1908, Andrew Harris, Caddo Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Private.
•    September 16, 1908, John Miles, Pointe Coupee Parish, Murderous Assault and Robbery, Black, Mass.
•    July 30, 1909, Emile Antoine, St. Landry Parish, Robbery and Shot White Man, Black, Private.
•    July 30, 1909, Onezime Thomas, St. Landry Parish, Robbery and Shot White Man, Black, Private.
•    September 6, 1909, Henry Hill, Franklin Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Posse.
•    October 7, 1909, Ap Ard, St. Helena Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    October 7, 1909, Mike Rodrigauez, Vernon Parish, Robbery, White, Unknown.
•    October 28, 1909, Joseph Gilford, West Carroll Parish, Murder and Theft, Black, Mass.
•    October 28, 1909, Alexander Hill, West Carroll Parish, Murder and Theft, Black, Mass.
•    November 20, 1909, Wm. Estes, Richland Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
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•    November 27, 1909, Simmie Thomas, Caddo Parish, Rape, Black, Mass.
•    July 10, 1910, J.C. Freeman, Richland Parish, Murder, White, Private.
•    January 20, 1911, Oval Poulard, Evangeline Parish, Shot Deputy Sheriff, Black, Private.
•    July 24, 1911, Miles Taylor, Claiborne Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    April 9, 1912, Thomas Miles, Caddo Parish, Insulted White Woman in Letters, Black, Private.
•    April 23, 1912, Unidentified Man, Richland Parish, Threats Against Whites, Black, Mass.
•    May 2, 1912, Ernest Allums, Bienville Parish, Writing Insulting Letters to White Women, Black, Private.
•    September 25, 1912, Samuel Johnson, De Soto Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    November 28, 1912, Mood Burks, Bossier Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Private.
•    November 28, 1912, Jim Hurd, Bossier Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Private.
•    November 28, 1912, Silas Jimmerson, Bossier Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Private.
•    December 23, 1912, Norm Cadore, West Baton Rouge Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    February 14, 1913, Charles Tyson, Caddo Parish, Unknown, Unknown (Possibly Black).
•    August 27, 1913, James Comeaux, Jefferson Davis Parish, Assault, Black, Private.
•    October 22, 1913, Warren Eaton, Ouachita Parish, Improper Proposal, Black, Private.
•    December 16, 1913, Ernest Williams, Caddo Parish, Murder and Robbery, Black, Private.
•    December 16, 1913, Frank Williams, Caddo Parish, Murder and Robbery, Black, Private.
•    May 8, 1914, Sylvester Washington, St. James Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    May 12, 1914, Earl Hamilton, Caddo Parish, Rape, Black, Mass.
•    August 5, 1914, Oli Romeo, St. Tammany Parish, Murder, Black, Mass.
•    August 6, 1914, Henry Holmes, Ouachita Parish, Murder, Robbery, Black, Private.
•    August 7, 1914, Dan Johnson, Ouachita Parish, Complicity in Murder, Black, Mass.
•    August 7, 1914, Louis Pruitt, Ouachita Parish, Complicity in Murder, Black, Mass.
•    August 9, 1914, Unidentified Man, Ouachita Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    December 2, 1914, Jobie Lewis, Caddo Parish, Murder and Robbery and Arson, Black, Private.
•    December 2, 1914, Elijah Durden, Caddo Parish, Murder and Robbery and Arson, Black, Private.
•    December 11, 1914, Charles Washington, Caddo Parish, Murder and Robbery, Black, Private.
•    December 11, 1914, Beard Washington, Caddo Parish, Murder and Robbery, Black, Private.
•    December 12, 1914, Watkins Lewis, Caddo Parish, Murder and Robbery, Black, Mass.
•    July 15, 1915, Thomas Collins, Avoyelles Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Posse.
•    August 21, 1915, Bob, Red River Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Unknown.
•    August 26, 1916, Jesse Hammett, Caddo Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Mass.
•    November 15, 1916, James Grant, St. Landry Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    December 28, 1917, Emma Hooper, Tangipahoa Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    July 29, 1917, Daniel Rout, Tangipahoa Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    July 29, 1917, Jerry Rout, Tangipahoa Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    January 26, 1918, James Nelson, Bossier Parish, Living with White Woman, Black, Private.
•    February 26, 1918, James Jones, Richland Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    February 26, 1918, Wm. Powell, Richland Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    February 26, 1918, James Lewis, Richland Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    March 16, 1918, George McNeal, Ouachita Parish, Rape, Black, Private.
•    April 22, 1918, Clyde Williams, Ouachita Parish, Murderous Assault and Robbery, Black, Private.
•    June 18, 1918, George Clayton, Richland Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    August 7, 1918, Bubber Hall, Morehouse Parish, Criminal Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    January 18, 1919, Henry Thomas, Red River Parish, Murder, Black, Posse.
•    January 29, 1919, Sampson Smith, Caldwell Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    February 14, 1919, Will Faulkner, Bossier Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    April 29, 1919, George Holden, Ouachita Parish, Wrote Insulting Note to White Woman, Black, Unknown.
•    August 26, 1919, Jesse Hammett, Caddo Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Mass.
•    August 31, 1919, Lucius McCarty, Washington Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Mass.
•    September 6, 1919, Unidentified Man, Morehouse Parish, Attempted Criminal Assault, Black, Private.
•    September 13, 1919, Unidentified Man, Catahoula Parish, Hiding Under Bed, Black, Unknown.
•    January 31, 1921, George Werner, Iberville Parish, Shot Man, Black, Unknown.
•    September 14, 1921, Gilmon Holmes, Caldwell Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    March 11, 1922, Brown Culpeper, Franklin Parish, Unknown, White, Unknown.
•    July 6, 1922, Joe Pemberton, Bossier Parish, Murderous Assault, Black, Unknown.
•    August 24, 1922, F. Watt Daniel, Morehouse Parish, Angered Klan, White, Unknown.
•    August 24, 1922, Thomas F. Richards, Morehouse Parish, Angered Klan, White, Unknown.
•    August 26, 1922, Thomas Rivers, Bossier Parish, Attempted Rape, Black, Private.
•    January 3, 1923, Leslie Leggett, Caddo Parish, Intimate with White Girl, Black, Private.
•    February 26, 1925, Joseph Airy, Bossier Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    August 4, 1926, Johnny Norris, De Soto Parish, Improper Advances to Girl, Black, Posse.
•    April 16, 1927, Willie Autrey, Calcasieu Parish, Peeping Tom, Black, Private.
•    June 2, 1928, Lee Blackman, Rapides Parish, Brother of Murderer, Black, Private.
•    June 2, 1928, David Blackman, Rapides Parish, Brother of Murderer, Black, Private.
•    February 19, 1933, Nelson Cash, Bienville Parish, Murder and Robbery, Black, Unknown.
•    August 26, 1933, John White, St. Landry Parish, Unknown, Black, Unknown.
•    September 11, 1933, Freddy Moore, Assumption Parish, Murder, Black, Unknown.
•    July 21, 1934, Jerome Wilson, Washington Parish, Murder, Black, Private.
•    October 13, 1938, W.C. Williams, Lincoln Parish, Murder and Murderous Assault, Black, Mass.
•    August 8, 1946, John Jones, Webster Parish, Intent to Rape, Black, Private.