The Shelley family's fight against a St. Louis racial covenant reached the Supreme Court, which ruled that courts cannot enforce private agreements barring home sales to Black buyers.
📍St. Louis, Missouri, MO
👤African AmericanHousing & redlining
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The Shelley family's fight against a St. Louis racial covenant reached the Supreme Court, which ruled that courts cannot enforce private agreements barring home sales to Black buyers.
The first recorded lynching of an African American occurred in St. Louis in 1835, when a white mob killed a Black man named Dyer[9]. This event marked the beginning of systematic lynching as a tool of racial terror against Black Americans[9]. It …
📍St. Louis, Missouri, MO
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The first recorded lynching of an African American occurred in St. Louis in 1835, when a white mob killed a Black man named Dyer[9]. This event marked the beginning of systematic lynching as a tool of racial terror against Black Americans[9]. It set a precedent for future extrajudicial killings of Black people.
The first recorded lynching of an African American occurred in St. Louis, Missouri. This act of racial violence marked the beginning of a pattern of extrajudicial killings used to enforce racial hierarchy and suppress Black communities. The event underscores the early emergence …
📍St. Louis, Missouri, MO
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The first recorded lynching of an African American occurred in St. Louis, Missouri. This act of racial violence marked the beginning of a pattern of extrajudicial killings used to enforce racial hierarchy and suppress Black communities. The event underscores the early emergence of lynching as a tool of racial terror in the United States.
In April 1835, free African American Francis McIntosh was captured by a mob in St. Louis after fatally stabbing Deputy Sheriff George Hammond while resisting arrest[4][6]. The mob chained McIntosh to a locust tree at the corner of Seventh and Chestnut streets …
📍St. Louis, Missouri, MO
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In April 1835, free African American Francis McIntosh was captured by a mob in St. Louis after fatally stabbing Deputy Sheriff George Hammond while resisting arrest[4][6]. The mob chained McIntosh to a locust tree at the corner of Seventh and Chestnut streets and burned him alive in front of a crowd exceeding 1,000 people[4][7]. This incident is widely recognized as the first recorded lynching of an African American in the United States, establishing a precedent for decades of racial terror[4][6].
