Talk:Lynching of Henry Choate

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Historicity.[edit]

During that visit a young white girl claimed she had been attacked by a young Black man.

I was kind of disgusted that someone would marginalize violence against an innocent young African American man and dismiss them out of hand as if they're lying without any evidence like this and decided to dig a little deeper.

Outside of a few activist publications that recite the exact same thing as one another and a tweet in 2009 that spawned the recent tweets in 2023 I cannot find the criminal docket or any information about this man ever existing.

I bracketed my search between 1890 and 2015 and besides a couple of political activists blogs, and the 2009 tweet, all saying exactly the same thing as one another verbatim, even down to punctuation, I cannot find prima facie evidence of this event. I suspect this may be one of the many examples of early authors not having precise evidence of lynchings but wanting to personalize the horror of the event and give it a face. It appears the first instance of this is circa 1929 in obiter dictum in a book on radical politics.

Does anyone have evidence of this mans existence? The court transcript? Or any primary source (like, academic primary source, not Wikipedia 'I found a single purpose blog that posted it.') that I could use as a jumping off point into further research on this please? 2001:8003:2998:5100:1D9B:CB5D:61D7:975F (talk) 09:36, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It took less than one minute to find a copy of the death certificate https://john-banks.blogspot.com/2020/03/that-sends-you-to-hell-1927-lynching-of.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.111.36.182 (talk) 03:06, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unrelated Source[edit]

Steelman, John R. (1928). A Study of Mob Action in the South (PhD). University of North Carolina. p. 268.

Page 268 of the source discusses lynching in general in Alabama. There's no reference to Choate or Tennessee. 128.194.176.216 (talk) 13:54, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]