Lynching of Cellos Harrison

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Cellos Harrison was an African American man in

Jackson County War
.

Harrison, a farm worker, was convicted of killing gas station attendant Johnnie Mayo in 1940.[4] His conviction was overturned when his confession was thrown out on appeal. Cellos was reindicted and then taken from the Jackson County, Florida jail by four masked men and killed by a blow or blows to the head. His body was found 5 miles outside Marianna.[5]

NAACP lawyer Harry T. Moore, who was later assassinated in a 1951 bombing of his home, wrote a letter to Florida governor Spessard Holland calling for an investigation and one was ordered.[6]

Tameka Bradley Hobbs wrote about this and three other lynchings in her 2015 book Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida.[7][5]

References

  1. ^ "Crime of Lynching: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on S. 42 [and Others] Bills to Assure to Persons within the Jurisdiction of Every State Due Process of Law and Equal Protection of Laws, and to Prevent the Crime of Lynching, and for Other Purposes". 1948.
  2. ISBN 9780813061047
    – via florida.universitypressscholarship.com.
  3. ISBN 9780813061047
    – via florida.universitypressscholarship.com.
  4. ^ "Florida Lynching 1943". The Jackson Sun. 16 June 1943. p. 3.
  5. ^ a b "Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss: June 16, 1943: Cellos Harrison". June 16, 2014.
  6. ISBN 9780684854533
    – via Google Books.
  7. ^ University, Nova Southeastern. "Florida lynchings subject of Diversity Dialogue". NSU.

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