Edward Coy was a thirty-two-year-old African-American man, who was burned at the stake in Texarkana (Miller County) before a crowd of approximately 1,000 people. Journalist Ida B. Wells, and prominent anti-lynching crusader from Memphis, Tennessee, described Cody's murder as one of the most shocking and repulsive in the history of lynching. Coy, described by the […]
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