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- On this day in 1908, a mob of white citizens attempted to lynch two Black men in Springfield, Illinois. When the would-be lynch mob learned the men were taken to another jail, a violent riot broke out.
- The State of Alabama executed Jeremy Williams tonight.
- On August 13, 1955, three white men shot and killed Lamar Smith, a 63-year-old veteran and voting rights activist, on the courthouse lawn in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Though there were dozens of onlookers, including the sheriff, no one was held accountable for the killing.
- On this day in 1903, after attempting to lynch a Black man, white mobs engaged in widespread racial terrorism directed at the Black community, forcing Black residents in Whitesboro, Texas, to flee.
