Romey: Previous Law Encounters
Title
Romey: Previous Law Encounters
Description
Nola Romey was lynched by a mob in Lake City, Florida in 1929. However this was not his first encounter with violence. 10 years earlier, in Valdosta, Georgia he was beaten by members of the Ku Klux Klan after serving a jail sentence for violating prohibition bone-dry laws. Learn more about his previous encounters with the law and racial anti-immigrant violence in these records.
Date
1919-1922
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Primary Source Archive for The Nola and Hasna Romey Project
Romey: Previous Law Encounters
![1922-06-30 "Another Beaten In South" in The New York Times](/themes/chass/thumbnail.util?r=242&g=242&b=242&a=0&img=https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/thumbnails/b8c1782a5c67e062a21e7e78f3f6ab68.jpg "1922-06-30 "Another Beaten In South" in The New York Times")
![1922-06-29 "Valdosta Man Is Taken Out And Given Beating" in The Valdosta Daily Times](/themes/chass/thumbnail.util?r=242&g=242&b=242&a=0&img=https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/thumbnails/65253053fe46c3ce4cf43bbd8ade2615.jpg "1922-06-29 "Valdosta Man Is Taken Out And Given Beating" in The Valdosta Daily Times")
![1919-07-26 "N.G. Romey Gets Jail And Gang Sentence" in The Valdosta Times](/themes/chass/thumbnail.util?r=242&g=242&b=242&a=0&img=https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/thumbnails/1ac12bf5d4ca89dc6b5e1dadb7704c08.jpg "1919-07-26 "N.G. Romey Gets Jail And Gang Sentence" in The Valdosta Times")
![1919-07-25 "Chaingang Term For Booze Seller" in The Valdosta Daily Times](/themes/chass/thumbnail.util?r=242&g=242&b=242&a=0&img=https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/thumbnails/aeb0df6456959fc81c3bd1d2d51e4437.jpg "1919-07-25 "Chaingang Term For Booze Seller" in The Valdosta Daily Times")