Word: chickasha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Argo May 31 Chickasha, Okla. Shot...
Under a huge front-page picture, the New York Amsterdam News, Negro weekly, last week published a long caption dealing with lynching No. 7 of 1930, which occurred three weeks ago at Chickasha, Okla. (TIME, June 9). Excerpts : "The Amsterdam News is able to present this picture of the type of United States citizens whose words are law in Texas and other parts of the South. Mrs. W. G. Skinner, photographed above with her husband and two-year-old child, accused Henry Argo of attempting criminal assault upon her, for which 'accusation' Argo was fired on by members...
...Skinners last week denounced this story as an absolute lie. They said Argo held Mrs. Skinner for 30 minutes, started to choke the 10-month-old Skinner child when it cried out. All Chickasha's officials and white citizens believe the Skinners...
Oklahoma last week added to the list of 1930 lynchings. At the Chickasha jail, hundreds of mobsters besieged the guards of black Henry Argo, attacker of white Mrs. George W. Skinner and her child. During successive rushes the mob fired the jail, smoked out many of its defenders. A sniper climbed to Argo's cell, shot him in the head. Husband Skinner broke in and stabbed the prostrate body. Argo was smuggled as dead into a hearse, driven to an Oklahoma City hospital before he died...