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Lynching of Bernice Raspberry

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Lynching of Bernice Raspberry
LocationLeakesville, Mississippi, U.S.
DateMay 25, 1927 (1927-05-25)
Attack type
Lynching
Deaths1
VictimBernice Raspberry, aged 23

Bernice Raspberry, also called Ed Lively, was a 23-year old African-American man who was murdered in Leakesville, Mississippi, on May 25, 1927.[1] Raspberry was arrested for an infraction in Leakesville, but then the sheriff was told he was wanted in nearby Bothwell for "alleged improper conduct with a white woman". Raspberry was taken to Bothwell but then taken back to Leakesville, for safe keeping. A group of some 100 masked men took him from the jail, strung him to a tree, and shot him many times.[2]

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