(CIVIL RIGHTS LYNCHING) Taken from Death Lynching at Russel

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(CIVIL RIGHTS--LYNCHING.) Taken from Death. Lynching at Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky, July 1, 1908. Real photo color post card 3-1/2 x 5 inches. Russellville, Kentucky 1908

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[The caption]: "Hanged on the Old Proctor Lynching Tree. This is a multiple cedar tree and these four make a total of nine men lynched on this tree. Some were white men. This is an exact photograph Taken at dawn, August 1, 1908." This photographic post card and two other images of the lynching appear in James Allen's book "Without Sanctuary," (Twin Palms 2003) in three variants: numbers 74, 75, and 76. This is number 74.