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Dixie said:
Raymond Gunn (January 11, 1904-January 12, 1931) was a black man killed by a mob in Maryville, Missouri, United States, after he confessed to killing and attempting to rape a white school teacher there.

The case received massive national publicity because it occurred outside the Southern lynch belt and because of its brazen and planned nature; and because the sheriff did not activate National Guard troops which had been specifically deployed to prevent the lynching.

The case was frequently invoked in the unsuccessful attempt to pass a law called the Wagner-Costigan Act during the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. This would have made it a federal crime for law enforcement officials to refuse to take steps to prevent a lynching.
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* 1 Early life
* 2 Murder of Velma Colter
* 3 Lynch mob atmosphere
* 4 The lynching
* 5 Aftermath
* 6 References
* 7 External links

[edit] Early life

Gunn was born to a local family in Maryville.

Gunn was convicted of attempted rape in September 1925, of a student at what is now Northwest Missouri State University after he accosted a woman on a rural lane outside of Maryville. Gunn never confessed to the crime, although he was allegedly beaten while in custody. He was released on January 28, 1928.

In 1929 he married a local woman and the couple moved to Omaha, Nebraska where she died of pneumonia. He returned to Maryville where he made a living as a hunter.[1]
[edit] Murder of Velma Colter

On December 16, 1930, 20-year-old teacher Velma Colter, who was the daughter of a local farm couple, was killed in the one-room Garrett schoolhouse (40°19′56.22″N 94°54′40.05″W / 40.3322833°N 94.911125°W / 40.3322833; -94.911125) about a mile southwest of Maryville. When she didn't return home as scheduled, her partially clad body was found in a pool of blood in the middle of the school and there was a bloody footprint.

Gunn was immediately suspected. A farmer said that he saw somebody matching Gunn's description near the school. Authorities arrested several black men matching the description before finding Gunn on December 18. Gunn had blood on his shirt (which he claimed was rabbit blood) and his footprint matched the one at the scene. Furthermore, Gunn had a severe bite mark on his thumb (the woman who had accused him of rape in 1925 said he stuck his thumbs in her mouth).

Gunn confessed, saying he had gone to the school with a hedge club after seeing Colter outside with a coal bucket. He said he hit her once after she bit him and then again after she hit him with the coal bucket.
[edit] Lynch mob atmosphere

Talk of lynching began immediately after Gunn was taken into custody on December 18, and crowds began to assemble in Maryville. Gunn was transferred to the Buchanan County, Missouri jail 45 miles south in St. Joseph, Missouri. Crowds gathered there as well, which prompted the sheriff to order a truck with a mounted machine gun to be backed to the door. The operator of the gun appeared to aim the weapon at the crowd (although he later said he was just oiling it) causing the crowd to disperse.

Gunn was transferred again, this time 100 miles south of Maryville to Kansas City, Missouri. At 3:30 a.m. on December 26, Gunn returned to Maryville for arraignment and then was taken back to Kansas City.

Colter's mother was quoted as saying she could not bear a trial and would not testify. Her son had been killed in France during World War I.
[edit] The lynching

Gunn's court date was set for January 12. The Nodaway County prosecuting attorney said Gunn would get a fair trial and appealed (along with many Maryville business leaders) to Missouri Governor Henry S. Caulfield to deploy the National Guard to prevent an anticipated lynching attempt. Caulfield complied and 60 troops were ordered at 7:30 a.m. to stand by at the National Guard a block north of the courthouse (at what today is the Maryville Public Library). By law, the National Guard could only be deployed at the written request of the sheriff, which was never made. Sheriff Havre English later told the press that he did not call up the guard because he did not want them to get hurt.

A large crowd occupied the Maryville square between the jail block to the northeast and the Nodaway County, Missouri courthouse. The sheriff was transporting Gunn by car, and drove directly into the mob. When he opened the door, a man pulled the sheriff aside and another took Gunn out of the car. Men who were there had said year's later that the leader bluntly said to the sheriff "either you move out of the way or die with this man, either way he's going to die today."

Gunn was chained and marched south down Main Street through the Maryville streets (avoiding the National Guardsmen). After an hour and a half, Gunn and the crowd arrived at the Garrett schoolhouse. His ears and nose were bleeding. The contents of the schoolhouse had been removed and placed on the lawn. A crowd estimated at between 2,000 and 4,000 had gathered. He was taken by 12 men inside the schoolhouse, where he is reported to have confessed again, as well as claiming he had an accomplice named "Shike" Smith.

Gunn was taken to the roof of the building where he was tied to a ridge pole. Gunn and the building were doused with gasoline. The leader of the group, only identified as a "man in a red coat", threw a lighted piece of paper into the building. Gunn screamed once and appeared lifeless in 11 minutes.

A reporter for the St. Joseph Gazette gave this description:

He twisted and revealed a huge blister ballooning on his left upper arm. Pieces of his skin blew away to the wind as the blistering heat became more intense and soon his torso was splotched with white patches of exposed flesh. His hair burned like a torch for moment then his head sagged. His body writhed. It took the appearance of a mummy.[2]

The building's roof collapsed within 16 minutes. Remnants of the school were taken away by the crowd as souvenirs.
[edit] Aftermath

No charges were ever filed in the case. Attempts to identify the man in the red coat have always been rebuffed with a claim that he was an outsider. However newspapers said all the other leaders were local.[3]

The lynching was universally condemned by newspapers across the United States. The Atlanta Constitution published an editorial cartoon with the caption of "The Torch of Civilization in Missouri."[4]

Residents were concerned that blacks from Kansas City were going to attack the city. Reportedly townspeople set up machine gun nests on Main Street.

Gunn's family home was also burned.[5]

The official 1930 census showed 90 blacks living in the town. 35 were enrolled in the Maryville school in 1930. In 1931, the number had dropped to six and eventually almost all blacks left the town.

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READ IT! Then tell us more LIES! YOU RACIST FUCKTARD!
 
Jarod said:
Look at the hissy fit you threw over the past 10 or so posts..


I can just see you on the ground kicking your feet, and punching your fists and crying at your computer....

How red is your face right now?
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Probably not as red as your ass is, after getting it spanked repeatedly. :mun:
 
Dixie said:
The Springfield Race Riot of 1908 was a mass civil disturbance in Springfield, Illinois, USA sparked by the transfer of two African American prisoners out of the city jail by the county sheriff. This act enraged many white citizens, who responded by burning black-owned homes and businesses and killing black citizens. By the end of the riot, there were at least seven deaths and US$200,000 in property damage. The riot led to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights organization.

At the turn of the century, Springfield, Illinois, was a rapidly-growing industrial center, with the highest percentage of African Americans of any comparably-sized city in Illinois. Racial tensions were high at the time due to fierce job competition and the use of black workers as "scabs" during labor strikes.[1]

On July 4, 1908, someone broke into the home of mining engineer Clergy Ballard. Ballard awoke and rose to investigate, finding a man standing near his daughter's bed. The intruder fled the house and Ballard gave chase. After catching up with the intruder, Ballard's throat was slashed with a straight razor. Before he died, Ballard identified the assailant as Joe James, a black man with a long record of minor crimes. White citizens of the town were enraged by this crime, thinking that the murder was the result of a thwarted sexual assault of a white woman by a black man. A crowd of whites caught James and beat him unconscious. The police rescued James, arrested him, and locked him in the city jail.[2]

On Friday, August 15 of that year, the local Illinois State Journal newspaper ran the story of a white woman, Mabel Hallam, who had allegedly been raped by a local black man, George Richardson. The 21-year-old wife of a well-known streetcar conductor claimed that the black caretaker had dragged her out of bed and assaulted her the night before. Police arrested Richardson and took him to the city jail as well.[3]

Later on August 14, a significant amount of mob action took place. A crowd of white citizens gathered in downtown Springfield, outraged by the fact that two black men had allegedly committed brutal crimes against white townspeople. The crowd demanded the release of the prisoners, but Sheriff Charles Werner was able to remove the two from jail and transport them to safety in Bloomington 64 miles away, with the help of restaurant owner Harry Loper.[4]

When the crowd learned that the two black prisoners had been moved with the help of Loper, they walked to his restaurant to exact revenge. Despite the fact that Loper stood in the doorway, the mob trashed the building and torched his expensive automobile. [5] Realizing that the local authorities were overwhelmed by the crowd, Governor Charles S. Deneen activated the state militia.[6]

The crowd now directed their anger toward the rest of Springfield's minorities. They proceeded to Fishman's Hardware, owned by a Jewish businessman, and stole weapons to use in the further destruction of homes and businesses. Then the mob moved on the Levee, a predominantly African American area, and destroyed numerous black-owned businesses.[7]

As the crowd moved on towards the Badlands, another black neighborhood, they encountered a black barber named Scott Burton. Burton attempted to defend his business with a warning shot from a shotgun, and was killed when the crowd returned fire. Burton's shop was burned and his body was dragged to a nearby saloon, where it was hung from a tree.[8]

The mob then burned black-owned homes in the Badlands. By this time, an estimated 12,000 people had gathered to watch the houses burn. When firefighters arrived, people in the crowd impeded their progress and cut their hoses. African American citizens were forced to flee the town, find refuge with sympathetic whites, or hide in the State Arsenal. The National Guard was finally able to disperse the crowd late that night.[9]

The next day, Saturday, August 15, as thousands of black residents fled the city, five thousand National Guard troops marched in to keep the peace, along with curiosity seekers and tourists who had read about the riots in the newspaper.[10] The peace was soon broken, however, when a new mob formed and began marching toward the State Arsenal, where many black residents were being housed. When confronted by a National Guardsman, the crowd changed direction and instead walked to the home of black resident William Donnegan, who had committed no crime, but had been married to a white woman for 32 years; Donnegan himself was either 84 or 76-years old.[11] When Donnegan came outside, the mob captured him, cut his throat, and lynched him in a tree in the yard of what was later known as The Hay-Edwards School across the street from his home.[12]
[edit] Aftermath

The riots ended at this point, leaving 40 homes and 24 businesses in ruins, and seven people confirmed dead: two black men and five white people who were killed in the violence. Some of the white casualties were shot by blacks defending their homes and businesses. There were rumored to have been several more unreported deaths.

A grand jury brought 107 indictments against nearly 80 individuals who had allegedly participated in the riots (including four police officers), but only one man, a 20-year-old Russian Jewish vegetable peddler named Abraham Raymer, was convicted. His crime was stealing a saber from a guard. Raymer had previously been put on trial for the murder of William Donnegan, of which he was acquitted, and he was also subsequently acquitted of other serious charges in two later trials, results which would set the tone for the rest of the cases.[13] Kate Howard, a white woman who had directed much of the violence, committed suicide before facing the charges against her. Mabel Hallam later admitted that her accusation of rape against George Richardson was false, and Richardson was released from jail. Joe James was convicted of the murder of Clergy Ballard and was hanged in the Sangamon County Jail on October 23, 1908.[14]

As a direct result of the Springfield Race Riot, a meeting was held in New York City to discuss solutions to racial problems in the U.S. This meeting led to the formation of the NAACP, a well-known civil rights organization.[15]

Visitors to Springfield, Illinois, can take a self-guided tour of nine historical markers that describe key moments in the Springfield Race Riot of 1908.

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In 1892, a police officer in Port Jervis, New York, tried to stop the lynching of a black man who had been wrongfully accused of assaulting a white woman. The mob responded by putting the noose around the officer's neck as a way of scaring him. Although at the inquest the officer identified eight people who had participated in the lynching, including the former chief of police, the jury determined that the murder had been carried out "by person or persons unknown."[29]

In Duluth, Minnesota, on June 15, 1920, three young African American travelers were lynched after having been jailed and accused of having raped a white woman. The alleged "motive" and action by a mob were consistent with the "community policing" model. A book titled The Lynchings in Duluth documented the events.[30]

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Louie Sam (1870? – February 24, 1884) was a Stó:lō youth from native village near Abbotsford, British Columbia who was lynched by an American mob.

Sam was 14 at the time these events occurred. He had been accused of the murder of James Bell, a shopkeeper in Nooksack (today Whatcom County, Washington). The people of his band, today the Sumas First Nation at Kilgard turned him over to the B.C. government to settle the matter.

Following this, an angry mob crossed the border into Canada on February 24 and captured Sam, who had been in the custody of a B.C. deputy. They then hanged him from a tree close to the U.S. border.

A subsequent investigation by Canadian authorities strongly suggests that Sam was innocent, and that the likely murderers were two white Americans who were leaders of the lynch mob. [1] They were William Osterman, the Nooksack telegraph operator who took over Bell's business, and David Harkness, who at the time of Bell's murder was living with Bell's estranged wife. Neither man was ever prosecuted.
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The United States of Lyncherdom was an essay by Mark Twain written in 1901,[1] after the lynching of three men in Pierce City, Missouri, his home state. It blames lynching in the United States on the herd mentality that prevails among Americans.[1] Twain decided that the country was not ready for the essay, and shelved it.[1] A redacted version was finally published in 1923, when Twain's literary executor, Albert Bigelow Paine, slipped it into a posthumous collection, Europe and Elsewhere.
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READ IT! I'LL MELT THE GODDAMN SERVERS DOWN UNTIL YOU DO! TELL US HOW YOUR 1875 CRA PROHIBITED THIS SHIT! LIE YOUR FUCKING RACIST ASS OFF! KEEP BUMPING THIS THREAD TO SHOW EVERYONE WHAT A LYING RACIST DENYING PIECE OF SHIT YOU ARE!
 
Dixie said:

READ IT! I'LL MELT THE GODDAMN SERVERS DOWN UNTIL YOU DO! TELL US HOW YOUR 1875 CRA PROHIBITED THIS SHIT! LIE YOUR FUCKING RACIST ASS OFF! KEEP BUMPING THIS THREAD TO SHOW EVERYONE WHAT A LYING RACIST DENYING PIECE OF SHIT YOU ARE!
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I never claimed it achuhually did prohibit that shit....

I merely said it was intended to prohibit that shit.

You know this, come on, its okay.... your claims were wrong... just admit it.
 
Jarod said:
Have you been speaking with my wife?


Na, just kidding.

Really, on this thread? or are you saying on other threads I got spanked?
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Maybe; what was her maiden name??
Just kidding.

I'm sure there are are others; but this one will do nicely.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
Maybe; what was her maiden name??
Just kidding.

I'm sure there are are others; but this one will do nicely.
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Are you serious, are you as dumb as Dixie?

How am I wrong here... He said no senator, congressman, blah, blah, was ever for desegregation.....

then there is the Desegregation act of 1875!
 
DESEGREGATON ACT OF 1875!

Whereas it is essential to just government we recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it is the duty of government in its dealings with the people to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color, or persuasion, religious or political; and it being the appropriate object of legislation to enact great fundamental principles into law: Therefore,


Be it enacted, That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.


SEC. 2. That any person who shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any citizen, except for reasons by law applicable to citizens of every race and color, and regardless of any previous condition of servitude, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges in said section enumerated, or by aiding or inciting such denial, shall, for every such offense, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby, . . . and shall also, for every such offense, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or shall be imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than one year . . .
 
Sheriff Clark said that Negro prisoners hurled Brown into the hands of the mob as its leaders approached the stairway leading to the county jail. Newspapers have quoted alleged leaders of the mob as saying that Brown was shoved at them through a blinding smoke by persons whom they could not see.

TELL US ABOUT THE CRA OF 1875 WHICH PROHIBITED THIS!
 
Jarod said:
Are you serious, are you as dumb as Dixie?

How am I wrong here... He said no senator, congressman, blah, blah, was ever for desegregation.....

then there is the Desegregation act of 1875!
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You could have given your final response to Dixie, many posts ago, and then explained your postion; but instead, you made the choice to play antics with semantics and this is what spanked your ass.

So, what was your wife's maiden name??

Just kiddin.
 
The riot lasted until 3 a.m., in the morning of September 29. At that hour, federal troops, under command of Colonel John E. Morris of the Twentieth Infantry, arrived from Fort Omaha and Fort Crook. Troops manning machine guns were placed in the heart of Omaha's business district; in North Omaha, the center of the black community, to protect citizens there; and in South Omaha, to prevent more mobs from forming. Major General Leonard Wood, commander of the Central Department, came the next day to Omaha by order of Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. Peace was enforced by 1,600 soldiers.

TELL US HOW CONGRESS HAD OUTLAWED THINGS LIKE THIS AND THEY NEVER HAPPENED!
 
A large crowd occupied the Maryville square between the jail block to the northeast and the Nodaway County, Missouri courthouse. The sheriff was transporting Gunn by car, and drove directly into the mob. When he opened the door, a man pulled the sheriff aside and another took Gunn out of the car. Men who were there had said year's later that the leader bluntly said to the sheriff "either you move out of the way or die with this man, either way he's going to die today."

WOW... I GUESS THEY HADN'T HEARD OF THE CRA OF 1875, HUH????
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
You could have given your final response to Dixie, many posts ago, and then explained your postion; but instead, you made the choice to play antics with semantics and this is what spanked your ass.

So, what was your wife's maiden name??

Just kiddin.
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Where did I play antics with semantics? (nice rap)

He is the one with the 6 foot tall letters in bold red ranting about illrelevant shit.

I merely pointed out that this bill was passed by legislators.
 
Gunn was chained and marched south down Main Street through the Maryville streets (avoiding the National Guardsmen). After an hour and a half, Gunn and the crowd arrived at the Garrett schoolhouse. His ears and nose were bleeding. The contents of the schoolhouse had been removed and placed on the lawn. A crowd estimated at between 2,000 and 4,000 had gathered. He was taken by 12 men inside the schoolhouse, where he is reported to have confessed again, as well as claiming he had an accomplice named "Shike" Smith.

Gunn was taken to the roof of the building where he was tied to a ridge pole. Gunn and the building were doused with gasoline. The leader of the group, only identified as a "man in a red coat", threw a lighted piece of paper into the building. Gunn screamed once and appeared lifeless in 11 minutes.

A reporter for the St. Joseph Gazette gave this description:

He twisted and revealed a huge blister ballooning on his left upper arm. Pieces of his skin blew away to the wind as the blistering heat became more intense and soon his torso was splotched with white patches of exposed flesh. His hair burned like a torch for moment then his head sagged. His body writhed. It took the appearance of a mummy.

OH MY! I GUESS SOME MORE PEOPLE HADN'T HEARD THAT WE OUTLAWED SEGREGATION!
 
There were dangerous occurrences happening to friends and acquaintances of Ossian in buying homes in white neighborhoods and then being attacked. There was even a group put together called the Waterworks Park Improvement, which happened to be run by real estate agents from Detroit and nearby cities, whose sole reason of existence was to create controversy against the idea of allowing blacks to move to white neighborhoods. These people were concerned with the belief that allowing blacks into their neighborhoods would lower property values. This was important because at this time, buying a home was a very difficult and lengthy process. The idea of buying land free and clear was no longer an option for most blacks, forcing them instead to take out multiple mortgages to buy a home, leading to even more debt. Also, the idea that an African American could afford what most were struggling to keep was insulting to many of the working class whites that lived in the neighborhood.

HMMMM.... DIDN'T THESE PEOPLE KNOW IT WAS ILLEGAL TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE? I GUESS NEWS HADN'T MADE IT THAT FAR YET, HUH?
 
On May 30, 1921, Rowland attempted to enter the Drexel building elevator and, although the exact facts are either unknown or in dispute, according to the most accepted accounts, he tripped, and while falling, latched on to the arm of the elevator operator, Sarah Page, then 17 years old. Startled, the elevator operator screamed and a white clerk in a first floor store called police to report seeing Rowland flee from the elevator and the building. The white clerk on the first floor reported the incident as an attempted assault.

WOW... WE'RE UP TO 1921, AND IT'S STILL GOING ON! WHERE IS CONGRESS? WHERE IS THE CRA OF 1875?
 
He is merely trying to bury his stupidity so you have to sort through huge posts to see it.
 
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