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Nash Griffin
Ocheeshee, Florida
August, 1888

Nash Griffin, who lived in Ocheeshee, Florida, was accused of writing an insulting note to a young woman.  The woman showed the note to some white men. The men found Mr. Griffin and gave him a hundred lashes as punishment and ordered him to leave the county. When he didn't leave the county, a group of forty masked men caught Griffin and shot him to death.

 

 
     
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