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lynching of Austin Callaway

8 sept. 1940 · 33.04° N, 85.03° W

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8 sept. 1940
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Meurtre
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33.04° N, 85.03° W
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lynching in 1940, in LaGrange, Georgia, United States

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Lynching of Austin Callaway

1940 lynching in LaGrange, Georgia, US

Austin Callaway,, also known as Austin Brown, was a young African-American man who was taken from jail by a group of six white men and lynched on September 8, 1940, in LaGrange, Georgia. The day before, Callaway had been arrested as a suspect in the attempted rape of a white woman. The gang carried out extrajudicial punishment and prevented the youth from ever receiving a trial.

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