1899
Wilmington, North Carolina, NC · On map
George White, a Black man accused of assaulting a white woman, was brutally lynched by a mob near Wilmington, NC. The event sparked national condemnation and led preacher Montrose Thornton to call for Black self-defense. It exemplified the horrific scale of lynching violence during the Jim Crow period.
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