Dark Days in the Ohio Valley: Three Western Kentucky Lynchings, 1884-1911
This thesis investigates three lynchings of African Americans in Progressive-Era western Kentucky. The first occurred in Owensboro. In July 1884, a masked mob at-tacked the Daviess County jail. Richard May, an African-American field hand, had been incarcerated for the alleged sexual assault of a loc...
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2004
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| Online Access: | http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/242 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1245&context=theses |