>The murder of 10 year old Geneva Hardman on February 4, 1920 while heading to school in Lexington, Kentucky touched off a mass riot after a black man named Will Lockett was arrested and charged with the crime. Hardman was found in a muddy field, her head bashed in with a rock--in a particularly horrible twist, her own mother was among the search party that discovered the battered body. Despite a lack of substantiative evidence, Lockett was compelled by police to confess to murdering her. It is unclear if the girl was raped; court documents do not mention that she was but several contemporary accounts suggest something of the sort happened. He barely escaped a lynching as the police moved him to a jail in another county. Lockett was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. He was executed in the electric chair on March 11, just 39 days after the murder. During his trial, a mob tried to break into the courthouse but National Guard troops posted around the courthouse fired into the mob, killing 5 and mortally wounding one. Unable to get the prisoner, the frustrated mob started a riot in downtown Lexington that led to two weeks of martial law being declared.
Alright well libs never post the time libs attacked blacks.
>cue racists trying to pretend Lockett was proven guilty on the basis of 0 evidence.
do you guys seriously think small town cops in 1920 did anything like that? it was more like "that colored feller looks mighty suspicious i bet your sweet bippy he done it."
>WTF these people judged a group because of their characteristics how shameful
>Also what a typical rural thing to happen
Nice try chud.
yeah yeah the justice system in 1920 wasn't as developed or fair as it is today. we know.
>He was executed in the electric chair
fried groid
fun facts: Kentucky performed the last public execution in the United States, in 1936
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140986787/geneva-hardman
her death certificate is posted on here, she was raped.
>Injuries resulting from being struck by rock, and shock from criminal assault
>general citizens hate injustice and evil so much they desperately want to kill murderers together and are even prepared to risk their own lives to kill murderers
Based. if only we still lived in a society with such strong moral fibre today.
>the
No homosexual the govt convicted and killed him anyways, in 39 days too. I hate naggers and israelites as much as the next god fearing man but that town just chimped out. They did nothing to alter the outcome of the trial. But yeah I agree people should have more leeway to administer justice if something obviously corrupt and fucky is going on. Fun fact: when my mom lives in KY some dude was going around raping kids and women at a shelter he started and ran. The cops didn't do shit so all the neighbors got together and burned down his personal house, then disappeared him.
no? Kentucky like most states influenced by Southern culture historically has had that cultural idea of blood feuds and mob justice. it was notably absent from the Upper Midwest and Northeast where people were much more legalistic.
>much more legalistic
quit trying to sound intelligent
>The cops didn't do shit so
they were in on the raping
It was apparently very wet that whole week and the girl was found lying next to her umbrella. Kentucky winters have a habit of being really rainy and nasty. It's usually not quite cold enough for snow and freezing weather like in the states to the north so instead you just get temperatures in the 30s and 40s, and in some ways it's worse and more uncomfortable than in Michigan where the weather that time of year is just freezing.
Now talk about Jonathan Foster, Shannon Christian, Christopher Newsom, Ethan Liming, Cannon Hinnant, Daisy Paulsen, and Cash Gernon.
ah, Kentucky. just like Missouri a Frankenstate that's never truly belonged to the South or the Midwest.
didn't lincoln invade it and prevent them from seceding
That was Missouri. Kentucky declared themselves neutral but invasion was basically inevitable and Confederate troops under Leonidas Polk were the first armies to enter its borders on September 2, 1861. A year later when they again invaded Kentucky, they were disappointed at the lack of enthusiasm for the Confederate cause and could find few willing army recruits--Braxton Bragg complained "These people are too well-off and have too many cattle and horses to want to fight."
is that a made up quote
Robert E. Lee didn't find much support in Maryland either.
maryland was occupied by Lincoln very early on to prevent secession despite having large amounts of slaves
Secessionist support was really only a thing in Baltimore and was suppressed early on. The ANV was invading the west of the state which was mostly Amish and Mennonite Germans who didn't own slaves or have any use for the Confederate cause.
I wonder "racist" old generation grow up during the time?
I'm surprised they were that effective in preventing the guy from being lynched because a lot of times it didn't work. In many cases the National Guard got called out but did nothing. These guys were apparently willing to shoot at the mob while in some cases they hesitated.
>a lot of times it didn't work
A lot of times what didn't work, jails? Are you implying the only time jails were used were also the few times lynchings occurred?
You really need to think before posting
A lot of times measures taken to safeguard a prisoner from being lynched didn't work.
what like jails
Sometimes but there were cases where they called out the National Guard and they stood there and watched as the guy was lynched. In this case they did actually shoot at the mob.
>there were cases where they called out the National Guard
what like one
Dude what is with your attitude, it’s crazy how condescending you’re being when YOU are the one acting confused.
The guy is saying mobs have broken into courthouses before and lynched people, hes surprised the national guard actually acted instead of stood by tacitly. Him being in jail is totally irrelevant because he was in the courthouse when the mob tried to get him
lynchings weren't common at all so even caring about them is pretty suspicious, it's like caring about golf course mowers killing rabbits
It wouldn't matter. in that time the justice system was half legal lynchings anyway. as we saw in this case they executed the first black guy they came across without even any real proof he killed the girl.
like I said who cares
lynchings have been common in the US for a long time.
they're not common at all and never have been
are you that retard from earlier that said "I have my own definition of common".
No I’m not that guy but there’s a lot of evidence that lynchings were commonplace in America, historically. How do you want to define common? I’m sure there’s definitions we could agree to.
Not* caring about them is pretty suspicious
FTFY
Do you normally obsess over extremely rare occurrences from 100 years ago or more
There's literally a religion with billions of adherents based on a single execution that occurred 2000 years ago. Retard.
so you worship lynchings?
No. The point is something can be significant without occurring every day.
comparing lynchings to jesus sounds mentally ill though
Cry about it.
racist white motherfuckers
Humans are..subhumans.
About 4,200 documented lynchings from 1880 to 1940 of which 70% of victims were black.
>Charlie Pool, a 40 year old black farmhand, was charged with the murder of Virginia Harris, a 27 year old farmer's wife and mother of two small children, after allegedly beating her to death on her Christian County farm on April 26, 1945. After having consumed a quantity of alcohol, Pool approached Harris, gestured to the barn, and said "Why don't you come up there in the loft with me?" Virginia, who was 6 months pregnant, became irate at this suggestion and threw a wooden board at Pool. He picked up the large piece of wood and bludgeoned her over the head with it. After she stopped moving, he picked her up and carried her some distance where he laid her in front of the barn. He opened the gate to the stable and let the mules out. One knocked over Virginia's 3 year old daughter.
>Pool did not attempt sexual relations with the stricken woman. Instead he took a quarter from their house which he needed to buy some gasoline for a tractor and went home. Later after sobering up he got worried and told her husband a mule kicked her to death but Virginia's daughter had seen what really happened. Curiously, her death certificate says the manner of death being accident or homicide is unclear.
>He was executed in Kentucky's electric chair on January 28, 1949, an unusually long death row stay for the era, as he made numerous appeals and attempts to delay the execution by charging racial prejudice and the lack of blacks on the jury at his trial.
>Pool did not attempt sexual relations with the stricken woman
well that was decent of him
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142871466/virginia-harris
she lost a kid the previous summer according to this. it looks like her and her husband got down to replacing it pretty quickly but then she was iced so they lost that one too. oh well.
i miss frontier justice
>During his trial, a mob tried to break into the courthouse but National Guard troops posted around the courthouse fired into the mob, killing 5 and mortally wounding one.
For a racist community, cops/soldiers seems very dedicated in protecting blacks.