(CIVIL RIGHTS) LYNCHING The lynching of four black miners in

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) LYNCHING. The lynching of four black miners in Alleghany County, Virginia, 1891. Composite cabinet card photograph, showing the lynching victims before and after: '11 AM, 11 PM, in ink under the images; somewhat toned with a few stains. Alleghany, Virginia, 1891

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a very rare composite photograph depicting three of four black miners who were lynched by a white mob following a bout of drinking and rowdiness that, had they been white, might have landed them in the 'drunk tank' and nothing more. These four started drinking in the morning and even had their photos taken, holding revolvers and striking fierce poses. The whites would later claim that the boys had been planning to 'Take the town,' but it's clear that what really happened was that four young men got very drunk and acted very brash in the very wrong Southern town. Not collected in James Allen's definitive work 'Without Sanctuary (Twin Palms, 2003).