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Lynching of Wade Thomas

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Luynching of Wade Thomas in Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas 1920
Luynching of Wade Thomas in Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas 1920

On December 26, 1920, an African-American man named Wade Thomas was lynched in Jonesboro, Arkansas, by a white mob. The mob seized Thomas from the Jonesboro jail after he allegedly shot local Patrolman Elmer Ragland, and murdered him.

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Lynching of Wade Thomas
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Luynching of Wade Thomas in Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas 1920
Luynching of Wade Thomas in Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas 1920
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