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Bookmark or Share- Lynching of Jesse Washington - WikipediaJesse Washington was a seventeen-year-old African American farmhand who was lynched in the county seat of Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916, in what became a well-known example of lynching. Washington was convicted of raping and murdering Lucy Fryer, the wife of his white employer in rural Robinson, Texas .
- Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington - Texas StandardSuspicion fell almost immediately on Jesse Washington, an illiterate black teenager who, with his brother, had been working as a hired hand for the Fryers for several months. By that evening, Washington was arrested.
- Jesse Washington Lynching - TSHAOf the 492 lynchings that occurred in Texas between 1882 and 1930, the incident that perhaps received the greatest notoriety, both statewide and nationally, was the mutilation and burning of an illiterate seventeen-year-old Black farmhand named Jesse Washington by a White mob in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916-an event sometimes dubbed the "Waco ...
- Jesse Washington Lynching - Waco HistoryIn May 1916, Jesse Washington, a seventeen year old black teenager, was arrested for the killing of Lucy Fryer, a fifty-three year old white woman. Washington would later confess to raping and killing Fryer.
- Jesse Washington Lynching - BlackpastOn the morning of May 15, 1916, approximately 15,000 people gathered near Waco, Texas, to witness the trial and lynching of Jesse Washington, an eighteen-year-old Black man charged with the bludgeoning death of Lucy Fryer.
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