Charred Crops Of A Black Man, 1919
Charred Crops Of A Black Man, 1919 Charred corpse of Will Brown who was killed by white lynch mob, 1919. (Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons) The race riot in the Omaha Race Riots, a part of Red Summer, resulted in the lynching of a black civilian Will Brown who was brutally killed and then mutilated and burned on 29th September 1919. The white lynching mob was posing for a photo while a burning body in front haunted many for generations, and it still does. The Omaha Race Riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28–29, 1919. The race riot resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, a black civilian; the death of two white rioters; the injuries of many Omaha Police Department officers and civilians, including the attempted hanging of Mayor Edward Parsons Smith; and a public rampage by thousands of white rioters who set fire to the Douglas County Courthouse in downtown Omaha. It followed more than 20 race riots that occurred in major industrial cities of the United States during the Red Summ...