Newspaper Article in the Tallahassee Democrat

Title

Newspaper Article in the Tallahassee Democrat

Description

Content Warning: Materials in this collection contain harmful content, including racist and white supremacist language, graphic descriptions of lynching, and other forms of violence.
An article in the Tallahassee Democrat, published in Tallahassee, Florida on February 20, 1929 "Negro Young Man Lynched Today: Body Found Buried Near Purported Crime". Eighteen-year-old African American man, Buster Adams was taken from the Hillsborough County, Florida jail in Tampa, to protect him from threatened mob violence after he was charged with attacking a thirteen-year-old white girl. Two men impersonating sheriff dupties with a suposed letter from the county sherrif took him from custody, murdered him, and buried his body buried him beneath a tree near Brooksville, Hernando County, Florida.

Publisher

Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

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Text/pdf

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Text

Identifier

kc0046_19290220_fllynchings_10

Files

https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0046/kc0046_19290220_fllynchings_10.pdf

Citation

Tallahassee Democrat, “Newspaper Article in the Tallahassee Democrat,” Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies Archive, accessed October 15, 2024, https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/83130.