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| − | '''John Carter''' was a black man lynched by a Little Rock mob who believed he had assaulted two white women. Carter's body was dragged behind a car and burned on top of a pile of church pews torn from a local African-American church. | + | '''John Carter''' was a black man lynched by a Little Rock mob who believed he had assaulted two white women. Carter's body was dragged behind a car and burned on top of a pile of church pews torn from a local African-American church. In the wake of the lynching, the [[Little Rock Chamber of Commerce]] called for the removal of the mayor, chief of police, and sheriff, without result. |
==References== | ==References== | ||
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| + | *James Harmon Chadbourn, ''Lynching and the Law'' (The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2008), 66-67. | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
[[Category:Civil Rights]] | [[Category:Civil Rights]] | ||
Revision as of 10:06, 11 April 2010
John Carter was a black man lynched by a Little Rock mob who believed he had assaulted two white women. Carter's body was dragged behind a car and burned on top of a pile of church pews torn from a local African-American church. In the wake of the lynching, the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce called for the removal of the mayor, chief of police, and sheriff, without result.
References
- James Harmon Chadbourn, Lynching and the Law (The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2008), 66-67.
