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Richard Thurmond
August 1898

Richard Thurmond allegedly entered the house of a white family in Mississippi and intended to assault a young woman. The intruder was surprised by members of the family and fled. Richard Thurmond was captured in Tennessee and placed on a train for transportation back to Mississippi. He was seized by a mob of white men who hung him.

 

 
     
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