stark major
23.10.05
picture postcards from a not-so-known past
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This is the barbecue we had last night my picture is to the left with a cross over it your son, joe
{ Charred corpse of Jesse Washington suspended from utility pole. May 16, 1916, Robinson, Texas. Gelatin silver print. Real photo postcard. 5 1/2 x 3 1/2" }
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This is the barbecue we had last night my picture is to the left with a cross over it your son, joe
{ Charred corpse of Jesse Washington suspended from utility pole. May 16, 1916, Robinson, Texas. Gelatin silver print. Real photo postcard. 5 1/2 x 3 1/2" }
Lynchers often paraded their victim down the main street, through black neighborhoods, and in front of "colored schools" that were in session. Jesse Washington, seventeen years old, was the chief suspect in the May 8, 1916, murder of Lucy Fryer of Robinson, Texas, on whose farm he worked as a laborer. After the lynching, Washington's corpse was placed in a burlap bag and dragged around City Hall Plaza, through the main streets of Waco, and seven miles to Robinson, where a large black population resided. His charred corpse was hung for public display in front of a blacksmith shop. The sender of this card, Joe Meyers, an oiler at the Bellmead car department and a Waco resident, marked his photo with a cross (now an ink smudge to left of victim).
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