Bernice Raspberry, also called Ed Lively, was a 23-year old African-American man who was murdered in Leakesville, Mississippi, on May 25, 1927.[1] Raspberry was arrested for an infraction in Leakesville, but then the sheriff was told he was wanted in nearby Bothwell for "alleged improper conduct with a white woman". Raspberry was taken to Bothwell but then taken back to Leakesville, for safe keeping. A group of some 100 masked man took him from the jail, strung him to a tree, and shot him many times.[2]
References
edit- ^ "The Law's Too Slow". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life. January 1928. p. 19.
- ^ "Texas Negro Lynched for Jones Crime". Clarion-Ledger. May 27, 1927. p. 1. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
