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Left: In Nebraska in 1919, a group of some
5,000 whites besieged the courthouse and
captured a black prisoner and beat him
senseless before shooting him more than
1,000 times and finally burning the body.
Above: Two young blacks, Thomas Shipp and
Abraham Smith, were lynched in Indiana in
1930. Thousands of Whites armed with base-
ball bats beat the two to death before hang-
ing them.
In the 1930s, the Ku Klux Klan began to
grow. These lynchings are just two of the
countless examples of the hatred and ruth-
lessness that racism brings with it.

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