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nearly 60 years after surviving a lynching attempt, and being convicted as an accessory to murder, James Cameron founded America's Black Holocaust Museum ?
the events surrounding the lynching of Joe Coe in Omaha, Nebraska in 1891 are said to foreshadow the lynching of Willy Brown 28 years later?
during the Moscow Uprising of 1682 , two maternal uncles of the 9-year-old tsar Peter I were lynched in his presence?
after Bill Sketoe was lynched in 1864, a hole dug to facilitate his hanging remained visible for over a century?
Hell Gate , a ghost town in western Montana , was the scene of several notorious lynchings in 1864?
Laurence C. Jones , the founder of the Piney Woods Country Life School near Jackson, Mississippi , once convinced a white mob not to lynch him by telling them about his educational mission?
Stephen Crane 's novella The Monster is thought to have been inspired in part by the 1892 lynching of Robert Lewis in Port Jervis, New York ?
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Question 2 : [ 39] There was tremendous controversy when the practice was endorsed by Winnie Mandela , then the wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela and a senior member of the ________ .
Question 3 : This article incorporates text from the public-domain ________ of 1913. passim
Question 4 : In addition, many states passed ________ to exempt white illiterates from literacy tests for a limited period.
Question 5 : Necklacing is the ________ and execution of victims by igniting a kerosene-filled rubber tire that has been forced around the victim's chest and arms.
Question 6 : The practice of whipping and necklacing offenders and political opponents evolved in the 1980s during the ________ era in South Africa.
Question 7 : Meeropol later said that the photograph "haunted me for days" and inspired his writing the poem "________ ".
Question 8 : After the 1915 release of the movie ________ , which glorified lynching and the Reconstruction-era Klan, the Klan re-formed.
Question 9 : ________ records of lynchings between the years 1880 and 1951 show 3,437 African-American victims, as well as 1,293 white victims.