Newspaper Article in The Tampa Times

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Newspaper Article in The Tampa Times

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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 Tampa Times, published in Tampa, Florida on February 22, 1929 "Jury Probing Lynching Case Finds Nothing: Evidence Lacking in Hernando County Hanging". 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 deputies with a supposed letter from the county sherrif took him from custody, murdered him, and buried his body beneath a tree near Brooksville, Hernando County, Florida. This article reports that a jury found insufficient evidence to indict anyone responsible.

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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

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Text

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kc0046_19290222_fllynchings_8

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0046/kc0046_19290222_fllynchings_8.pdf

Citation

The Tampa Times, “Newspaper Article in The Tampa Times,” Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies Archive, accessed December 5, 2024, https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/83132.