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Five photographs of the lynching of Frank Embree, 22 July 1899, near Fayette, MO.
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.
Sep 24, 2022 · 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.
Jan 13, 2000 · The $30,000 photograph depicted a black man, Frank Embree, stripped naked, standing on a buggy, his hands shackled, his back lacerated from whipping. ''He hasn't lost his dignity,'' Mr. Allen...
- Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith
- Shipp and Smith
- A Dual Murder
- An Anonymous Death
- A South Georgia Murder
Aug. 7, 1930 Marion, Ind. Inscribed in pencil on the inner, gray matte: "Bo pointn to his niga." On the yellowed outer matte: "klan 4th Joplin, Mo. 33." Flattened between the glass and double mattes are locks of the victims' hair. "Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America" was organized by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center ...
Aug. 7, 1930 Marion, Ind. The images from "Without Sanctuary" depict in graphic detail the brutal lynchings of as many as 4,000 black men and women between 1882 and 1968. Many of the bodies were mutilated, burned or tortured. Photographs from these incidents were turned into mass-produced postcards distributed through the mail, shared among friends...
The lynching of Laura Nelson and her son. May 25, 1911 Okemah, Okla. Etched in the negative: "1911 copy right, g.h. farnum, okemah. okla 2897." Collector James Allen: " 'Without Sanctuary' is an unearthing of collective mass murder, of mass-memory graves excavated from the American conscience. Part postal cards, common as dirt; souvenirs skin-thin ...
Unknown victim Circa 1900 Unknown location The bludgeoned body of an African-American male is propped up in a rocking chair, with blood-splattered clothes and white and dark paint applied to the face and head. Also visible is the shadow of a man using a rod to prop up the victim's head.
Unknown victim Unknown date Georgia Two men on horseback at center of group, corpse in front of rider on the right Collector James Allen: "I believe the photographer was more than a perceptive spectator at lynchings. The photographic art played as signifcant a role in the ritual as torture or souvenir grabbing — a sort of two-dimensional biblical s...
Nov 12, 2021 · English: Lynching of Frank Embree (aged 19) in Burton, Missouri in 1899, white onlookers in the background. Embree was flogged for half an hour before being murdered.
The Lynching of Frank Embree. After the Without Sanctuary Photographs. 1. I’ve come to watch like all of the rest— leaning-in-or-away our way through the museum. Or watching you like the ones gathered around—pale, gray-eyed, ghost-eyed (yes, white). They are watching me watching you. But to watch means that you are still alive.
