“in 1925 a mob of white men broke into the Martin County jail and removed a young Jewish man named Joseph Needleman, who had been accused of raping a local woman named Effie Griffin. “They had carried him to the cemetery at the Skewarkey Primitive Baptist Church, where they castrated him and left him for […]
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A 1925 lynching for which 10 men went to prison
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged david cecelski, joseph needleman, martin county nc, nc lynching on September 19, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
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