Black history

 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about African American History

Jeffrey C. Stewart

Sam Hose had killed white farmer during an argument and was brutally lynched and burned to death by a mob of over 2000 people. After his charred body was dragged to the ground, men, women and children struggled with one another to take home pieces of his burned flesh as souvenirs…Hose had been barbecued and …his burned knuckles were on display in a shopkeeper’s window in Atlanta.

As a result, W.E.B. Dubois began to pen is landmark book, “The Souls of Black Folk.”