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Torture and Lynching
- When
- 1899
- Where
- Fayette, Missouri
Frank Embree was tortured and lynched in Fayette, Missouri, following a false accusation of assault against a white girl.
In 1899, Frank Embree, a nineteen-year-old African American man, was falsely accused of assaulting Willie Dougherty, a fourteen-year-old white girl. A mob in Fayette, Missouri, whipped him one hundred times and then hanged him. Photographs were taken before and after the hanging, documenting the torture and execution.
Sources
- Fayette, Missouri Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-06
- Lynching in the United States Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-29
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