Fishback Lynchings Letter

Letter from Governor William Fishback, published in the Arkansas Gazette, offering a reward for the arrest of the perpetrators of lynchings at Bearden (Ouachita County).

"The Bearden lynchers" newspaper clipping

From the Arkansas Gazette, May 11, 1893

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Time Period

Post-Reconstruction through the Gilded Age (1875 - 1900)

Category

Criminal Activities / Law

Type

Event

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