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Author: BasketLady420
Surnames: Shipp, Smith, Cameron
Classification: queries
Message Board URL:
http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.cameron/1747/mb.ashx
Message Board Post:
"On the night of August 7, 1930, three young African Americans --
Thomas Shipp age nineteen, Abram Smith eighteen, and sixteen-year-old
James Cameron -- faced the hideous wrath of a lynch mob in the Ku
Klux Klan-dominated town of Marion, Indiana. Only Cameron survived."
(more on website)
I am not related to this family, just passing on this information
which comes from a website called "American Lynching." The link for
the site is listed below.
Joyce
http://www.americanlynching.com/main.html
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