The Geography of Lynching in the Deep South, 1882 to 1910
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The Geography of Lynching in the Deep South, 1882 to 1910 Frank Embree shortly before his lynching, Fayette, Missouri, 1899. He was accused of raping a 14-year-old white girl and only confessed after being whippedover 100 times Frank Embree was nineteen when he was accused of raping a fourteen-year-old white girl. Although rape was punishable by hanging in the state of Missouri at the time, for decades it was a punishment reserved for black men convicted of raping white women. Although Embree maintained his innocence, he was whipped over 100 times until he confessed to the crime, saying "he would 'own-up' if they would 'hang me or shoot me, instead of torturing me."' Frank Embree died at the end of a rope, without a trial, on July 21, 1899. There were 120 lynchings in the state of Missouri between 1880 and 1951, sixty-nine of those hanged were African Americans. Punishment based on mob hysteria without the benefit of instruction on the law, aid of counsel, the...