The Color Line Murders

Before you hear stories of victims of color line murders, it's important to understand the history of lynching in America and how lynching became an acceptable act of racial terror in the American South. Website: colorlinemurders.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/colorlinecrimes Email: colorlinemurders@gmail.com Learn more about the history of lynching Read the report "Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror", by the staff of the Equal Justice...

In July of 1935 Rubin Stacy was accused of attacking a white woman. A white mob, that included the local sheriff, lynched Stacy. A photo of the lynching was so disturbing that the NAACP used it in a campaign to call for anti-lynching legislation. Website: colorlinemurders.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/colorlinecrimes Email: colorlinemurders@gmail.com More about this episode The Day They Lynched Reuben Stacey by Bryan Brooks July 17, 1988 | Includes first hand accounts from witness...