Lynching of Ell Persons
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Ell Persons was a black man who was lynched on 22 May 1917, after he was accused of having raped and decapitated a 15-year-old white girl, Antoinette Rappel, in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. He w
Grave of Antoinette "Antonetty" Rappel - Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown Memphis, TN
A historical marker was dedicated near the site on the 100-year anniversary of the lynching.
Back side of Historical Marker near the site
NAACP Historical Marker near the site of the Ell Persons lynching
NAACP
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group in
An African American drinks out of a segregated water cooler designated for "colored" patrons in 1939 at a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City.
Sign for the "colored" waiting room at a bus station in Durham, North Carolina, 1940
NAACP leaders Henry L. Moon, Roy Wilkins, Herbert Hill, and Thurgood Marshall in 1956
NAACP representatives E. Franklin Jackson and Stephen Gill Spottswood meeting with President Kennedy at the White House in 1961