By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is helping investigate the hanging death of a 54-year-old black man in Mississippi. Local police in the small central Mississippi town of Port Gibson requested the bureau’s help to determine whether Otis Byrd was murdered or committed suicide. Byrd was last seen on March 2 and was found Thursday…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was a brutal lynching even by Georgia’s standards. On July 25, 1946, a white mob tied up a black couple in their 20s and shot them 60 times. The notorious incident became known as the Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching. No one has been prosecuted in the case. But The Guardian…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was a disturbing discovery – a black teenage boy hanging from a swing set in a trailer park in North Carolina. Was it a suicide or a lynching? The state has determined that 17-year-old Lennon Lacy committed suicide in August. But the New York Times reports that the FBI has agreed to…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com It took a while — a very long while. The first African-American federal law enforcement officer to be killed in the line of duty after Reconstruction was in 1883. He was lynched by a bloodthirsty mob of 200 townspeople in Mississippi. Now, more than a century later, the life and service…
