Talk:Jesse Washington/Comments

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The photograph posted with the article on Jesse Washington is NOT Jesse Washington. This photograph appeared in the NAACP magazine, "The Crisis," before Jesse Washington was lynched and represents an early lynching victim in Temple, Texas, in 1915.

The creator of the article probably found this photograph, mislabeled, in James Allen's book "Without Sanctuary." I have already pointed out the mistake to Mr. Allen, who has done such wonderful work collecting lynching pictures.

Sadly, when the lynch mob was through, there wasn't even this much left of Jesse Washington to photograph.

Thank you, Patricia Bernstein Author of "The Waco Horror: the Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP"