Watkinsville Mass Lynching of 1905: Remembering One of America’s Worst Mass Lynchings

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On June 30, 1905, the town of Watkinsville, Georgia, became the site of one of the most horrific acts of racial violence in American history. That night, a large mob seized nine men from the Oconee County jail and executed eight of them by gunfire. The incident has been described as “one of the worst […]
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