Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 August 1925

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

The lynch mob forced their way through steel doors into White’s prison cell, took him to a field near the scene of the crime, lit a pyre of straw and fence posts smashed into kindling, coiled ropes around the man and threw him into the fire. White twice freed himself only to be thrown back into the flames as thousands of all ages watched and some cheered.
(22 June 1903)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Saturday 8th of August 1925 101 years, 8 months and 28 days ago
30.000 – or up to 50.000 according to some sources – white robed members of the Ku Klux Klan march 22 abreast and 14 rows deep blocks in Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.