Chronology
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Famous American
Trials
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The Trial of
Sheriff Joseph Shipp et
al.
1907
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Diagram
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The
Supreme Court Intervenes: Documents
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Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp,
tried
in the U. S. Supreme Court in 1907 (the only criminal trial in Supreme
Court history)
for his role in the lynching of Ed Johnson.
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The
Trial of Sheriff Shipp: Transcript Excerpts
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Supreme
Court Decision
in
the Shipp Case
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Newspaper
Accounts
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Statistics
on Lynching
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The
Shipp Trial: An Account
by
Douglas
Linder (c) 2000
"I am ready to die. But I never done it.
I am going to tell the truth. I am not guilty. I have said all the time
that I did not do it, and it is true. I was not there. I know I
am
going
to die and I have no fear to die
and I have no fear at all....God bless
you all. I am innocent."
--The last
words of Ed
Johnson before
he was lynched on the Walnut Street Bridge in Chattanooga on March 19,
1906.
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Chattanooga Sermon
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