J. Thomas Shipp and Abraham S. Smith were two young African-American men who were murdered in a spectacle lynching by a group of thousands on August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana. They were kidnapped fr
Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith
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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
Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith
…accused of robbing and murdering a Claude Deeter, 24 years old, and raping his fiancée, Mary Ball, 18. A third African-American suspect, 16-year-old James Cameron, was also arrested and taken by the mob, but narrowly escaped the same fate. Just before he was going to be lynched, an unknown woman in the crowd…
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Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, lynched August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana
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