Sunday, February 6, 2022
Before he could stand trial, the teenager Thomas Brown was taken from his jail cell by 200 White men and hanged from a tree in front of the courthouse in Nicholasville, Kentucky. No one was every prosecuted for his murder. Lynching in America: https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ and National Memorial of Peace & Justice in Alabama: https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/memorial