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Lynching, Federalism, and the Intersection of Race and Gender in the Progressive Era

Holden-Smith, Barbara

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Yale Journal of Law & Feminism

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Abstract

In 1904, a lynch mob of more than 1000 white people burned Luther Holbert, a black Mississippi sharecropper, and his wife to death.' A Vicksburg, Mississippi newspaper gave the following eye-witness account of the lynching.

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/7209