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'A new version of lynching': Why the cases of two Black RI men are relevant a century later

November 17, 2023

Scholars have called capital punishment as "legal lynching," with the overlapping history of the peak of lynching with the rise of the death penalty.

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In 1913, a young Black man was convicted of killing a white boy in RI. Was it a legal lynching?

November 16, 2023

On July 4, 1913, Brad Smith, a young Black man from Newport, was chased down the beach by a mob. He fired a shot in self defense changing his life forever.

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'A new version of lynching': Why the cases of two Black RI men are relevant a century later

In 1913, a young Black man was convicted of killing a white boy in RI. Was it a legal lynching?

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