'A new version of lynching': Why the cases of two Black RI men are relevant a century later
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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Scholars have called capital punishment as "legal lynching," with the overlapping history of the peak of lynching with the rise of the death penalty.
Herbert Johnson, a Black teen from RI, was heading home to Barrington from Chicago in 1930 when he was stopped by police in upstate New York.
The stories of two young Black men from Rhode Island are important parts of the state's history. Here's how The Journal pieced them together.
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