James Cameron (activist)
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James Cameron was an American civil rights activist. In the 1940s, he founded three chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Indiana. He also served as Indiana's S
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Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, lynched August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana
America's Black Holocaust Museum
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Marion, Indiana
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Marion is a city in and the county seat of Grant County, Indiana, United States, along the Mississinewa River. The population was 28,310 as of the 2020 census. It is named for Francis Marion, a brigad
James Cameron (activist)
…from slavery to the present. Cameron was a survivor of a lynching attempt, which occurred when he was a 16-year-old suspect in a murder/robbery case in Marion, Indiana; two older teenagers were killed by the mob. Cameron was born February 25, 1914, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, to James Herbert Cameron and Vera Carter…
Grant County Courthouse
Streetcars in Marion, 1891
VA hospital campus (left) south of Marion's downtown