Lynching of Bernice Raspberry

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Lynching of Bernice Raspberry
Location Leakesville, Mississippi, U.S.
DateMay 25, 1927;98 years ago (1927-05-25)
Attack type
 Lynching
Deaths1
VictimBernice Raspberry, aged 23

Bernice Raspberry, also called Ed Lively, was a 23-year old African-American man who was murdered in Leakesville, Mississippi, on May 25, 1927. [1] Raspberry was arrested for an infraction in Leakesville, but then the sheriff was told he was wanted in nearby Bothwell for "alleged improper conduct with a white woman". Raspberry was taken to Bothwell but then taken back to Leakesville, for safe keeping. A group of some 100 masked men took him from the jail, strung him to a tree, and shot him many times. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Johnson, Charles Spurgeon (January 1928). "The Law's Too Slow". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life . p. 19.
  2. ↑ "Texas Negro Lynched for Jones Crime". Clarion-Ledger . May 27, 1927. p. 1. Retrieved April 20, 2021.

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