Deputies Protect Black Suspects From Lynch Mob

Posted on November 4, 2009 by lmharnisch
 Nov. 4, 1909, Lynch Mob 

 
Nov. 4, 1909: The daughter of Leonard Dunmore is shot to death while trying to rescue her father from being burned alive. Dunmore was dragged from his home, doused with oil and set on fire over suspicions that he had burned several houses in Knoxville, Miss.

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