Sunday, December 14, 2014

Berkeley students find cardboard cutouts of black lynching victims hanging on campus

Who’s this Laura Nelson?

One of the figures printed on the cutout was that of Laura Nelson, a black woman lynched in Oklahoma in 1911, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Nelson’s 18-year-old son, Lawrence, also was hanged by a white mob that broke into their jail cell, the paper added.

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