Lynching By Bella Varano

In To Kill A Mockingbird, Tom Robinson was about to be lynched while at his cell by a mob of Maycomb people, but Atticus and Scout helped to stop them.

Jesse Washington was a teenage African American farmhand who was lynched May 15, 1916 in Waco, Texas as 10,000 people watched in Waco's city hall. He was convicted for murdering the wife of his employer, Lucy Fryer. There were no witnesses at the crime and was later found to be a lie.

Work Cited: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jesse_Washington http://www.cbsnews.com/news/waco-horror-still-reverberates-100-years-later/

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