Jesse Washington

Scouring the Internet for images of lynching victims for part of a project I'm starting, I came across the story of Jesse Washington.  The sheer barbarism and inhumanity stopped me in my tracks. 

A small bit about Jesse Washington

As jaded as I may be by violence in this day and age, just reading what atrocious things people did to this young man sickened me to my stomach.  I had been finding pictures of Iraqi civilian victims and saw a picture of an even younger boy with the lower half of his leg completely blown-off, and, as disturbing as that was, the story of Jesse Washington made my eyes swell with disgust and disbelief.

Well, it looks like this project is gonna be trying in one more way than I expected...


On a related note: here's some of the pictures I've been collecting from the Internet.  These people surrounding the corpses, wearing their suits and best hats, are supposed to be the civilized ones. The dead black men are supposed to be the barbarians.

I'll let you decide whether or not that's the case.

This is Jesse Washington