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
Grant County Courthouse
Streetcars in Marion, 1891
VA hospital campus (left) south of Marion's downtown
Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, lynched in Marion on August 7, 1930
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
Marion, Indiana
…county jail where three young black men were held on charges of killing a white man and raping his girlfriend. Before they could be tried, the three, Thomas Shipp, Abram Smith, and James Cameron, were dragged from the jail and severely beaten. Shipp and Smith were hanged to death. Cameron was saved when an…
Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith