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Lynching of Cordella Stevenson

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A barn owned by a white man, Gabe Frank, was burned down in a suspected arson attack. Stevenson's son was accused of burning the barn even though he hadn't been seen in the area for months. Local police arrested Cordella Stevenson and her husband Arch Stevenson and held them for six days hoping that
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Arch escaped on foot and ran into Columbus, but was unable to obtain aid. No one was ever arrested for Stevenson's
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At 10:00 PM on December 15, 1915, a mob of white men broke into their home,
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Lynchings of Women in the United States The Recorded Cases, 1851-1946
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Alleged to have aided the escape of an accused murderer
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Jim Crow Era

Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Columbus, Mississippi
African-American
lynched
Columbus
Mississippi
sexually assaulted
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
rape
murder
Bolivar County
Byhalial
Marshall County
Columbus
Clarke County
Shubuta
Clarke County
Lynching of women in the United States
Chicago Defender, December 18, 1915
Ginzburg 1988
Segrave 2010
Thompson 2015
The Chicago Defender
Robert S. Abbott
ISSN
0745-7014
OCLC
18766972

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