Rubin Stacey, lynched victim, hanging from a tree, surrounded by onlookers, including girls, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Rubin
Stacy, 37 was a homeless tenant farmer who knocked on a white woman's
door (Marion Jones) – she screamed, and he was arrested.
As
he was being led to jail by six deputies, a mob of about 100
overpowered them – ran their car off the road, and lynched him in sight
of Marion's house, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Marion
claimed she offered him a drink of water, but he tried to assault her
with a knife, which she later recanted. A photo of the lynching was sent
to President F.D.
Roosevelt to persuade him
to support the Costigan-Wagner Act which would bring federal prosecution
to any law enforcement officers who failed to exercise their
responsibilities during a lynching incident.
- Roosevelt refused to support the bill claiming he would lose Southern votes in the next election.
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