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Lynching of Jesse Washington

Jesse Washington was a seventeen-year-old African American farmhand who was lynched in the county seat of Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916, in what became a well-known example of lynching. Washington was convicted of raping and murdering Lucy Fryer, the wife of his white employer in rural Robinson, Texas. He was chained by his neck and dragged out of the county court by observers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lynching of Jesse Washington has received more than 2,520,526 page views. Their biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Lynching of Jesse Washington is the 298th most popular social activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Lynching of Jesse Washington ranks 298 out of 840. Before them are Maurice Bishop, Pavel Pestel, François-Jean de la Barre, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Túpac Katari, and Franceska Mann. After them are Massoud Rajavi, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Ryu Gwansun, Unity Mitford, Abdallah ibn Yasin, and Johannes Kleiman.