Frank Embree was nineteen when he was accused of raping a 14-year-old white girl. Embree was from the state of Missouri, and black men convicted of rape of a white woman were sentenced to death by lynching. Although he maintained that he was innocent, he was whipped over 100 times until he confessed to the […]

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