In one scene he is 12, walking in the Alabama woods, when he discovers a young lynching victim hanging from a tree.
When I finally located him, he was strung up like a lynching victim.
The majority of lynching victims were denied access to a trial while others were convicted in unfair trials.
Sharecroppers and lynching victims are closely associated in America's racial memory.
"Crowd Above" is a group of strangely dislocated figures, one of whom may be a lynching victim - or perhaps a leaping acrobat.
Mexican, Chinese, and Native American lynching victims were recorded as white.
In Act I, he is a lynching victim who tap dances his own death.
In 1914, the Tuskegee Institute reported that 51 of 55 lynching victims were black .
This publication lists Thurber as the state's first lynching victim.
The death throes of lynching victims are depicted with only a few slight but horrifying twitches.