Sarasota Judge Williams Refutes Newtown Residents Outrage at Marker to Recognize Lynchings, 331 Black Men Were Lynched in Florida
Sarasota Judge Williams Refutes Newtown Residents Outrage at Marker to Recognize Lynchings as 331 Black Men Were Lynched in Florida. Newspapers of the times trivialized the barbaric lynching of black men in Bradenton and Haines City Fl. The Tampa Times in 1913 called murdered Sam White aka Joe Bell a "Lustful Negro" after a mob of white men shot him to pieces and then hung his body in Haines City Fl. The Orlando Evening Star in 1912 wrote that negro Willie English was shot to death and hung in Bradenton Fl as a "warning to others of his kind" for propositioning a young white girl. April 25, 2021 Sarasota Judge Williams writes in Herald Tribune: As part of a coalition of supporters involved in attempting to recognize the lives and legacies of lynching victims in this area – murdered individuals whose names remain largely forgotten and whose stories remain largely untold – I read with dismay a Sarasota Herald-Tribune story featuring quotes from some Newtown reside...