RACES: Lynchings No. 2,3 and 4

The 1930 Black List moved up last week from one lynching to three when two Negroes were almost simultaneously done to death by mobs in Mississippi and South Carolina. Furthermore, a white man was killed in Florida.

In Mississippi. Dave Harris, black and 35, was suspected of stealing groceries from the Clayton Funderberg farm near Rosedale. Young Clayton Funderberg, 17, with two friends marched out with shotguns to the Harris cabin to "teach that damn nigger a lesson." Harris met them with a volley of buckshot, dropped Clayton dead in his tracks, fled for...

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