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Rubin Stacy, murdered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA in 1935
19 July 1935. Thirty-two year old Rubin Stacy hangs from a tree in Fort Lauderdale, Florida after being seized from the custody of the sheriff's deputies for allegedly attacking a white woman.
   According to conservative statistics, 3,833 people were lynched between 1889 and 1940. Ninety percent of them were murdered in the South, and four-fifths of them were Black.
   The civil rights leader W.E. Dubois would hang a banner outside his New York office reading 'Another lynching today' whenever a lynching was reported.
Source: 'Strange fruit' by David Margolick.
  
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