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Joseph Upchurch was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob near Paris, Tennessee, on June 17, 1927.
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Thomas Bradshaw was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob in Bailey, North Carolina, in August 1927.
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- ↑ "The Law's Too Slow". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life . January 1928. p. 19.
- ↑ "Texas Negro Lynched for Jones Crime". Clarion-Ledger . May 27, 1927. p. 1. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
