Location: Montgomery County, Alabama
Year: 1935
Edward Bracey, a farmer, was killed during Labor Day Weekend, 1935, by a mob in Hope Hull, Montgomery County, Alabama.
During a cotton pickers’ strike, a gang of landlords and vigilantes opened fire on Bracey’s house. Bracey was killed as he tried to escape out the back door.
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The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive houses case files and documents for more than 1,000 cases of racial homicides in the Jim Crow South. Co-founded by Melissa Nobles, professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Margaret Burnham, CRRJ director and professor of law at Northeastern, these uncovered stories highlight how violence affected lives, defined legal rights and shaped politics between 1930 and 1954.
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