Lynching rampage in South Georgia

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Lynching rampage in South Georgia

• Made by
• Bj Smallwood
• Olivia Cone
• Emi Pallotti
• Sarah Thompson

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Lynching's

• There were so many lynching's in 1880 and 1930
  that sociologists have called this period the
  lynching era.
• Literally thousands of men, women, and children
  were murdered at the hands of mobs.
• The NAACP reported 3,224 lynching's between 1889
  and 1918, while the Tuskegee institute counted
  4,587 for the years 1882-1930.

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Lynching's

• The first of the mobs victims was Will Head, one
  of the employees who had helped plan the killing.
  
• Head was captured early Friday morning, May 17,
  near Barney.
• Reports suggested that the mob wanted to capture
  all those involved in the plot, take them to the
  scene of the crime, and lynch them all together.

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Lynching's

• Hangings were often preceded by beatings,
  shootings, burnings, and sadistic torture that
  included dismemberment and mutilation.
• The causes of lynching in the South are just as
  difficult to pin-point as the exact number of
  victims.
• The mobs eighth and ninth victims, lynched on
  Sunday of May 19, Two were killed in the most
  sensational, brutal, and barbaric manner in this
  south Georgia tragedy.

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Georgia

• The lynching of women was common in Georgia.
• Ten women were lynched in Georgia between 1880
  and 1930-but this episode stands out as being
  particularly gruesome.
• It is also an indication that the mob would spare
  no person in exacting its revenge, even if it
  meant killing an unborn child.

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Women Weren't Safe

• The mob tied Mary Turners ankles together hung
  her to a tree head down, and automobile gas was
  poured on her. Marys clothes were burnt off her
  body then a mob member cut open her stomach where
  her unborn child fell.

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Final Kill

• The final confirmed victim of the mob violence,
  the thirteenth to die, was the man who actually
  shot Hampton Smith, Sidney Johnson.
• On the evening of May 22, Valdosta police
  officers, led by Chief Dampier, went to the
  house, located at south troupe and south streets
  to arrest the suspect.

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Brooks County

• There were more lynching's in Brooks County than
  in other county in Georgia.
• Fitzhugh Brundadge has suggested that the county
  was the most mob prone county in the entire
  south.

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Brooks County Lynching
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Street Battle

• In the evening of May 22, Valdosta police
  officers, led by Chief Dampier, went to the
  house, located at South Troupe and South Streets,
  to arrest the suspect.
• Johnson opened fire when the officers entered the
  house and a gun battle ensued.
• Chief Dampier was wounded, as was Patrolman
  Dampier and Dixon Smith.

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The Mobs Stop

• Sidney Johnson was the last confirmed victim of
  the mobs rampage through Brooks and Lowndes
  counties.
• This lynching spree confirms Brooks Countys
  place as the most mob-prone county in Georgia.

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No Repercussions

• There were no legal repercussions for the mob,
  and no one was ever held accountable for their
  actions.
• The foreman of the Brooks County grand jury in
  May 1918 was William A. Whipple, one of the
  leaders of the mob.
• This ensured that no charges would be brought
  against anyone involved.

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The Ruthless Mob

• The Brooks County mob carried out swift summary
  justice waiting to hear from the man who shot and
  killed Hampton smith.
• Brooks County was the most mob prone and lynched
  prone county.