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Линчевание Джорджа Хьюза

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Линчевание Джорджа Хьюза , которое привело к тому, что в 1930 году произошло бунт Шермана , произошло в Шермане, штат Техас . [ 1 ] Афроамериканский мужчина, обвиняемый в изнасиловании и был судил в суде 9 мая, когда здание суда округа Грейсон было поджег белой толпой, которая впоследствии сожгла и разграбила местные компании, принадлежащие чернокожим,. Военное положение было объявлено 10 мая, но к тому времени многие из чернокожих предприятий Шермана были сожжены на земле. [ 2 ] Тридцать девять человек были арестованы, восемь из которых были обвинены, а позже большое жюри обвинило 14 человек, ни одного за линчевание. К октябрю 1931 года один человек получил краткосрочный срок тюремного заключения за поджог и подстрекал бунта. За вспышкой насилия последовали еще два линчевания в Техасе, один в Оклахоме и несколько попыток линчевания. [ 3 ]

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Широко распространенная экономическая трудность, вызванная Великой депрессией , и резкое обращение с белыми плантаторами к черным шарикопперам, привели к расистскому насилию в Техасе, и особенно в Шермане, штат Техас , округа и экономическом и административном центре округа Грейсон . Когда Джордж Хьюз, чернокожий, был обвинен в том, что он изнасиловал белую женщину под дулом пистолета, страх смешения и расистского сенсации привел к линчеванию и жестокому бунту в здании суда, а затем в черном районе города. [ 1 ] Хьюз якобы напал на жену его работодателя на их ферме, в пяти милях к юго -востоку от Шермана, и застрелил депутатов после того, как его отслеживали заместитель шерифа. Он сдался и был доставлен в окружную тюрьму. [ 4 ]

A confession was quickly obtained,[4] and George Hughes was indicted for criminal assault on Monday, May 5. A speedy trial was set for Friday, May 9. In the days preceding the trial, rumors spread about the case, among them that Hughes had allegedly mutilated the (unidentified) woman, who was supposed to be dying—these rumors were proven false, but Hughes was taken from the jail and housed elsewhere to prevent a lynching. While some were shown the inside of the jail to prove Hughes was not there, a mob still gathered outside every night, refusing to believe the truth.[1]

The trial, the lynching, the looting

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Hughes was led to the county courthouse on May 9 by Texas Ranger Captain Frank Hamer (pronounced HAY-mer)[5] and two other rangers, along with a police sergeant, while the county sheriff and his deputies guarded the courtroom and the hallways leading to it. A large crowd had gathered outside and began filling the corridors; officers cleared part of the courthouse during jury selection and the start of the trial. Soon, still in the morning, the crowd began to throw rocks at the courthouse, with one man waving an American flag and inciting the crowd. A jury was sworn in at noon, and Hughes pleaded guilty to the indictment. While the first witness was testifying, the crowd broke through the doors of the corridor leading to the courtroom, and Texas Rangers fired warning shots, after which the jury was sent away, and while the Rangers fired tear gas, Hughes was led to the vault of the courthouse. People in the courtroom were evacuated with ladders, but the district judge could not decide on a change of venue; Hamer said he thought the trial would end violently if it was held in Sherman.[1][6][7]

Two youths set the building on fire by throwing gasoline into an office, around 2:30 pm; it quickly spread and the officials were evacuated with ladders. Hughes, it was reported, asked the deputies that guarded him to leave him in the vault ("a huge two-story vault of steel and concrete"[8]); he could not be rescued by Rangers because of the fire, and outside, the mob cut the water hoses and prevented the firemen from acting. The mob drove a small militia away to get to the fireproof vault, which was, by 4 pm, the only thing left standing, besides the walls of the courthouse. Governor Dan Moody had sent the National Guard, but the mob engaged in a "pitched battle" with them around 6:30 pm; a rumor had spread that Hamer was ordered not to shoot, and the Guard was pushed back. By midnight, members of the mob, using dynamite and acetylene torches, had opened the jail. Hughes was dead, and the mob pulled his body from the vault and, behind a car, they dragged him to the Black business section of Sherman, where they hung him from a tree in front of a drugstore, and lit a fire under him, using material looted from the store. The crowd numbered over 5,000.[1][6]

The mob then started burning other businesses besides the drugstore, all the while preventing firemen from doing their job.[1] A White man saved a block of Black-owned buildings by claiming they were his; a number of Black citizens defended their property, including a local doctor armed with no more than a shotgun.[9] The following morning, May 10, the majority of the Black-owned businesses in Sherman (including the office of Civil Rights lawyer William J. Durham),[10] and one residential building, had been burned.[11] The militia returned and cut down Hughes's body, but the town's two Black undertakers' businesses had been burned. A White undertaker buried Hughes's body that same morning,[1] in an unmarked grave at the county farm.[9]

Aftermath

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Black citizens of Sherman had fled the town, seeking shelter in the brush, in sewers, or among sympathetic White people. When they returned, they found that Black properties destroyed included a hotel, a movie house, a restaurant, and a barbershop, besides the drugstore and the two undertaker parlors. They were a total loss, and the small print on insurance policies stated that no damage that resulted from a riot would be compensated: "it marked the end of Black business in Sherman", according to Edward Hake Phillips, a local historian.[9]

The town was under armed guard for a few more weeks, and while some Whites tried to help their Black fellow citizens, others threatened employers if they did not fire their Black employees, and put up notices telling Black people to get out of town or see their homes destroyed.[9]

See also: Lynching of George Hughes § Other lynchings of Black men in Texas during the following few weeks
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On the morning of May 10, 225 extra National Guard members arrived in Sherman, and two extra Rangers. Eleven men were arrested but six were soon released. Governor Moody finally declared martial law that evening, after local community leaders urged him to do so, and more arrests were made.[12] A military court of inquiry was installed, and orders were given to shoot whoever attempted to burn or destroy Black-owned properties. By May 13, thirty-nine arrests had been made. A justice of the peace charged nine of them, but immediately dismissed a number of them. Troops remained stationed at the Black school, which reopened on May 14, though some Guardsmen were sent home.

On May 21, 1930, a Sherman grand jury – reporting to Grayson County District Judge Roger Mills Carter, Sr. (1887–1954) – returned ninety-six indictments against thirty-two defendants, which eventually shrank to seventy indictments against fourteen mob members. Maury Hughes (1894–1955) and Ted Monroe (né Theodore Fuller Monroe; 1890–1952), both of Dallas, were retained to represent 13 of the indicted men. Hughes had been a member of the Dallas Ku Klux Klan, but resigned and became an opponent of the Klan.[13]

In the end, only one man was convicted. J.B. "Screw" McCasland (né J.B. McCasland; 1912–1997) – on a change of venue, tried in Austin – was convicted June 4, 1931, for arson[14] and July 1, 1931, for participating in a riot.[15] He was sentenced to the penitentiary, two years for each conviction. No one was charged for the lynching.

Martial law was lifted on May 24, 1930. The Herald Democrat printed an editorial criticizing the riots and property damage, but not the lynching.[1] Before the lynching and riot, McCasland had been sentenced to three years for two chicken theft charges and also sentenced for another burglary charge – he was serving a total of thirteen years. Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, on December 28, 1934, granted McCasland a conditional pardon,[16] in part, because of the illness of his mother,[17] Mae McCasland (née Hanna Mae Waddle; 1892–1982), who, in 1928, became a widow.

Although McCasland's conviction was for arson and rioting, not lynching, Joe Cox (né Joseph Price Cox; 1885–1970), District Attorney at Sherman who assisted in the prosecution, said that McCasland's conviction was the first in Texas growing out of mob violence against a Black man for [allegedly] attacking a White woman.[14]

Community resistance to memorialize the lynching and riot

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Twenty-eight years ago, in her doctoral dissertation, Donna Kumler stated, "Sixty-five years later, in 1995, some in this North Texas community still recall the riot, although unwillingly, and many residents, both Black and White, would rather the incident not be discussed at all."[18][3] Ninety-four years, four months later – as of September 22, 2024 – there is no civic marker in Sherman that refers to the lynching and ensuing attack by Whites on the Black community.[19]

There is, however, a Texas Historical Commission historical marker on the courthouse lawn, erected in 2001, bearing about 257 words in bas-relief cast aluminum, commemorating the courthouses of Grayson County. It merely mentions the fire, to wit: [the courthouse] "served the county until it burned in 1930". The marker is one of several on the lawn and is only a few feet away from a Confederate monument that was erected in 1897.[20][21][a] A proposal submitted in 2020 to erect a marker (commemorating the lynching and riot) was approved by the manager of the historical marker program, but was blocked in December 2020 by Bill Magers, the Grayson County Commissioners Court Judge.[3]

Reflections by historians

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Hollie A. Teague, in 2018, published a treatise criticizing Texas law enforcement's long history of (paraphrasing) "brutality and wanton dereliction of duty" towards Blacks. In the article, Teague summarized the lynching of George Hughes as follows: " ... accusations by Pearl Farlow, the niece of a powerful law enforcement officer in Sherman[b] ... resulted in a power display that included the death of the accused man, the total destruction of Sherman’s Black business district, the obliteration of a large courthouse, mobilization of the National Guard, and the eventual declaration of martial law. All the while, law enforcement – including the notoriously brutal Texas Ranger Frank Hamer – stood by and did nothing."[22]

By contrast, John Boessenecker, in 2016, lauded Texas Ranger Hamer as follows: "It was clear that he [Hamer] displayed great courage defending George Hughes, for in a time and place where racial hatred ran rampant, Hamer stood unbowed before the mob. On the other hand, his failure to act while the mob destroyed the Black neighborhood was no more defensible than Sherman police directing traffic while the lynchers blew open the vault."[23][24][25]

Texas historian Melissa Thiel, a proponent of memorializing the lynching and riot, stated, "There are eight Texas historic markers at that courthouse – several ... [for] events [that] didn't even happen at the courthouse, but this did." "Our courthouse burned down."[26]

Graham Gordon Landrum, PhD (1922–1995), in 1960, wrote, "Some people are still sensitive about it. The names of persons who were indicted in the weeks that followed the violence, for example, have been carefully excised from the newspaper files in the public library."[27]

Other lynchings of Black men in Texas during the following few weeks

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Texas farmers have found that it is cheaper to lynch a Negro than to pay him his honest wage.

– California Eagle, June 20, 1930 (re: Lynching of Bill Roan)[28]

The lynching of George Hughes was one of five lynching attacks by Whites on Black men within nine weeks in Texas.

  1. May 16, 1930: George Johnson (1900–1930), a Black man accused of slaying his White landlord, George Forrest Fortenberry (1879–1930), after an altercation over a debt, was shot to death by a sheriff's posse after he had barricaded himself in a cabin in Honey Grove, Fannin County, Texas. White men then fastened the body's feet to the back of a truck, face down. In this position the corpse was dragged five miles through the business section of town, then into the then-called "Negro section of Honey Grove," then they publicly burned his remains. Honey Grove is 50 miles east of Sherman – Fannin County is the next county over from Grayson County.

    Yes sir, White folks, I'm going to die. And, I'm asking all of you not to hold any malice against me in your hearts. The Lord has forgiven me all my sins and I am ready to go. I didn't kill the White lady, and if I had, I would tell you that I did.

    (last words of Jesse Lee Washington)

  2. June 18, 1930: Bill Roan (né William Roan), a Black man, worked for Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bowman on their farm near Benchley. June 15, 1930 – a Sunday – Henry Bowman (né Henry Monroe Bowman; 1888–1972) beat Roan for being "sassy" with his wife. Bowman allegedly took Roan to his barn, stripped him, and brutally whipped him with a wet rope. The next day, Monday, Bowman's wife, Helen Bowman (née Ruby Helen Peyton; 1898–1979), accused Roan of attempting to assault her. Local law enforcement officers, including Brazos County Deputy Sheriff C.L. Baker (né Charles Lorin Baker; 1869–1935), were apprised of the accusations, they did little to investigate. Wednesday morning, June 18, 1930, Roan was found dead by two White men, Columbus Seale (né Henry Columbus Seale; 1891–1961)[c] and John O'Connor (né John Albert O'Connor; 1897–1960), in a pasture of a cattle ranch in Brazos County owned by Columbus's father, Robert Henry Seale (1860–1943). One of Roan's arms was "almost torn off by buckshot" and he had "a gaping wound in his chest." Roan was slain, reportedly, by a posse of a dozen White men who hunted him down. Deputy Sheriff Baker, on Tuesday, June 17, 1930, had been informed by a member of a posse of about a dozen White men that they were going to hunt for and kill Roan. Baker simply told them to "go home." After Roan's body was found, Brazos and Robertson County authorities, including Deputy Sheriff Baker, reportedly claimed to not know any members of the posse.[29][28][30][31][32]
  3. June 28, 1930: Jack Robertson, a Black man accused of shooting R.L. Egger (né Robert Lee Egger; 1896–1973), blinding him, and also accused of shooting his wife, Stella Egger (née Stella Marie Baker; 1899–1993) – both white, Mr. Egger, a dairyman said to be Robertson's employer, reportedly the result of an argument over chickens, was lynched (fatally shot) at night in Round Rock, Texas, by a posse.
  4. July 12, 1930, Shamrock, Texas, a posse headed by Collingsworth County Sheriff Claude Elihu McKinney (1885–1972) thwarted a mob of 200 White men attempting to lynch Jesse Lee Washington (1909–1930), a Black farmhand accused of attacking and killing a White farm woman, Ruth Vaughan (née Mabel Ruth Tackitt; 1905–1930), wife of Henry Hugh Vaughan (1906–1932).[33] Washington was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, which was carried out by electric chair July 12, 1930, in Huntsville. Henry Vaughan committed suicide by Cyanide poisoning, September 12, 1932, in San Antonio.[34]

Nearby lynching in Oklahoma

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  1. May 30, 1930: Henry Argo, a Black man, was lynched in Chickasha, Oklahoma – the birthplace of civil rights activist Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher (1924–1995), about 165 miles north-northwest of Sherman. Argo was accused of attacking Mrs. Angie Skinner (née Clara Angeline Orlds; 1910–1968), a White woman, at her dugout home, about a mile from Chickasha. Argo was in the Grady County jail while awaiting trial when, on May 31, 1930, a member of a White mob stormed the jail and fought National Guardsmen. Another unidentified member of the mob managed to shoot through the jail window, critically injuring Argo with a bullet through his skull. The shooter was said to have been Jud Brown. While Argo was laying wounded on a cot in the jail, G.W. Skinner (né George Washington Skinner; 1899–1960), husband of the accuser, plunged a knife into Argo's chest. Authorities took Argo to a nearby hospital where, reportedly, medical attendants refused aid. Argo, then unconscious and thought by the mob to be dead, was returned to the jail. He then was transferred to the University of Oklahoma Hospital in Oklahoma City, where he died May 31, 1930; 12:40 am.[35][36][30][37][38] On May 21, 2021, Rev. Dr. Raushan Paul Ashanti-Alexander proposed that the City of Chickasha pass a resolution condemning the actions that led to Argo's death. Mayor Chris Mosley agreed to prepare the resolution.[39]

See also

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Bibliography

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Annotations

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  1. ^ The murder of George Floyd May 25, 2020, triggered international protests for racial justice and racist history atonement. Shortly thereafter, in Sherman, a petition to remove the Confederate monument on the courthouse lawn was initiated. (Herald Democrat; June 18, 2020)
  2. ^ Pearl Farlow (née Pearl Inice Atnip; 1901–1943) – who, on November 15, 1921, married William Wylie Farlow (1899–1971) – was the accuser. She was a niece of Bevie V. Atnip (1894–1981), a law enforcement officer in Sherman. (Teague; 2018)
  3. ^ Henry Columbus Seale was a distant relative of convicted KKK kidnapper and murderer, James Ford Seale (1935–2011). They were third cousins, once removed. Henry Columbus Seale was also a distant relative of Henry Bowman. Bowman's father's first wife, Samantha Ann Seale (maiden; 1834–1870) (her second marriage), was a double second cousin, twice removed, of Henry Columbus Seale – double because her father, Joshua Seale (1805–1867) and mother, Elizabeth Seale (maiden; 1813–1893) were first cousins (they had the same grandparents). Note that Texas-born civil rights activist Bobby Seale (born 1936, Liberty, Texas) bears the same surname.

Notes

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Thompson, 1995.
  2. ^ Chapman, August 1973, p. 35.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Washington Post, June 3, 2021.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Phillips, 1987, p. 12.
  5. ^ Texas Ranger Hall of Fame.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Caldwell & DeLord, 2015, p. 589, Hughes, George.
  7. ^ Swanson, 2020.
  8. ^ Phillips, 1987, p. 13.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Phillips, 1987, p. 15.
  10. ^ Gillette, April 1978, pp. 403–404.
  11. ^ Whitewright Sun, May 15, 1930, pp. 1, 7.
  12. ^ Hudy, May 2001.
  13. ^ Payne, June 2017.
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b Dallas Morning News, June 5, 1931.
  15. ^ Fredricksburg Standard, July 3, 1931.
  16. ^ Tyler Morning Telegraph, December 29, 1934.
  17. ^ Pruden, 1935.
  18. ^ Kumler, December 1995, p. 9.
  19. ^ Dallas Morning News, May 21, 2021.
  20. ^ Herald Democrat, August 19, 2017.
  21. ^ Herald Democrat, June 16, 2020.
  22. ^ Teague, July 5, 2018, p. 765.
  23. ^ Boessenecker, 2016, p. 376.
  24. ^ Davies & Swanson, June 8, 2020.
  25. ^ Raper, Chapter 16.
  26. ^ KXII News 12, May 24, 2021.
  27. ^ Landrum, 1960, p. 94.
  28. ^ Jump up to: a b California Eagle, June 20, 1930.
  29. ^ New York Age, June 28, 1930.
  30. ^ Jump up to: a b Time, October 27, 1930.
  31. ^ Earsy, Rothbaum, and Baum.
  32. ^ Raper, Chapter 8.
  33. ^ Raper, Chapter 22.
  34. ^ Texas Deaths: Henry H. Vaughan.
  35. ^ Time, June 9, 1930.
  36. ^ Time, June 23, 1930.
  37. ^ New York Times, June 1, 1930.
  38. ^ Raper, Chapter 18.
  39. ^ Express-Star, May 18, 2021.

News media

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  • California Eagle (June 20, 1930). "Texas Records Another Lynching". Vol. 43, no. 2. pp. 1 & 2 (columns 1 & 3). Retrieved July 6, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. LCCN sn82-16196; OCLC 175312023 (all editions).

Books, journals, magazines, and papers

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→ Chapter 8: "'Red Boned Nigger From Louisiana' – Bryan, Brazos County, Texas". The University of North Carolina press. 1933. pp. 125–138.
→ Chapter 16: "Burning Down the Courthouse – Sherman, Grayson County, Texas". The University of North Carolina press. 1933. pp. 319–355.
→ Chapter 18: "Death in Cell by Gun and Knife, Chickasha Grady County, Oklahoma". The University of North Carolina press. 1933. pp. 369–383.
→ Chapter 22: "Foiling the Mob". "Collingsworth and Wheeler Counties". The University of North Carolina press. 1933. pp. 450–453.

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  • Стивенсон, Боб (продюсер/режиссер) (1995). Шерман ( VHS ; 30 минут). White Crane Video Productions. OCLC   37399251 - Oustin College Специальная коллекция   (это видео представляет собой коллекцию интервью, реальные фотографии и живые представления о линчевании Джорджа Хьюза 1930 года и последовавших бунтами против чернокожих в Шермане.) {{cite book}}: Cs1 maint: postscript ( ссылка )
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