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Lynching of Thomas Bradshaw

1927 in North Carolina1927 murders in the United StatesLynching deaths in North CarolinaMurdered African-American peoplePeople murdered in North Carolina
Race-related controversies in the United StatesRacially motivated violence against African Americans

Thomas Bradshaw was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob in Bailey, North Carolina, in August 1927.Apparently Bradshaw was accused of rape and arrested, but in "what appeared to be a mob orchestrated maneuver, Bradshaw was allowed to escape arrest. He was then patiently chased and hunted over two days and nights before being captured, exhausted, and then murdered by a group of white men who went unpunished."John R. Steelman, who wrote his PhD dissertation on "mob action in the South", listed Thomas Bradshaw as one of the cases, and said Bradshaw, after "being shot five times by a posse in Nash County, in 1927, fell dead 'on account of heart failure from fatigue' according to the coroner's jury."

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