Before Emmett Till, 17-year-old Jesse Washington was roasted to death by a white mob and captured on camera for postcards
James Allen in a BBC documentary submitted, having been accused of the murder of Lucy Fryer, a 53-year-old white woman whom he served in her household with additional claim of violating her sexually, a mob could not let the justice system decide his fate rather upon being declared guilty by an all-white jury, someone in the courtroom shouted ‘get that nigger’ and with that Washington’s fate was sealed.
