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On the morning of July 22, 1899, a white mob abducted Frank Embree from officers transporting him to stand trial and lynched him in front of a crowd of over 1,000 onlookers in Fayette, Missouri. About one month earlier, Frank Embree had been arrested and accused of assaulting a white girl.
Five photographs of the lynching of Frank Embree, 22 July 1899, near Fayette, MO.
The only representation of resistance visitors saw in Witness were photos of the 1899 lynching of Frank Embree. Embree resisted his lynching by looking directly into the camera. Embree did not cower in fear, but bravely stood tall as he covered his genitals with his bound hands in order to maintain his dignity.
One in four lynching victims, like Joseph Richardson and Frank Embree -- were accused of unlawful conduct with white women. In nearly every case, no evidence, just an accusation, was enough....
Frank Embree was nineteen when he was accused of raping a 14-year-old white girl.
The man hanging from a tree on the postcard turned out to be Leo Frank, the Jewish factory supervisor lynched in 1915 in Atlanta after being accused of murdering a young woman.
In one extraordinary case, a black man about to be lynched -- a man named Frank Embree, naked, bound and whipped until bleeding -- looks back at us, beyond us too, challenging our moral...
