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Chap 5 KKK in Austin -1882 Lynching of Uncle Sam
Manage episode 431935930 series 3413422
Emmett Shelton, Sr. and Emmett Shelton에서 제공하는 콘텐츠입니다. 에피소드, 그래픽, 팟캐스트 설명을 포함한 모든 팟캐스트 콘텐츠는 Emmett Shelton, Sr. and Emmett Shelton 또는 해당 팟캐스트 플랫폼 파트너가 직접 업로드하고 제공합니다. 누군가가 귀하의 허락 없이 귀하의 저작물을 사용하고 있다고 생각되는 경우 여기에 설명된 절차를 따르실 수 있습니다 https://ko.player.fm/legal.
'Mob Law' was common 'justice' in Central Texas, roughly 150 years ago.
Emmett's Great Great Uncle Sam Shelton was a wild cowboy in Belton in 1880s. He was arrested one night for attempted murder of a deputy and his teen son was jailed with him.
A Mob took Uncle Sam from the Belton Jail with a Black Man, Mr. Keys. They were hung on an oak on the Hilltop. Sam's teen brother, Terrell, was spared and witnessed the hanging.
Sam's brother and Civil War hero (James K. Polk Shelton), revenged the killers. He was tried and acquitted. However, he soon disappeared. His wife, Grandma was left to raise 4 kids alone in the 1880s. She supported the family as a schoolteacher in a number of one-room schools in central Texas.
With this family history, Emmett's father raised his sons to fight the hard battle all his life - to fight for the common man against injustice, including Lynch Mobs and the KKK.
Music: The Hills that I call Home by Southern Rail
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Stories told by Emmett Shelton / compiled and submitted by Cynthia Shelton.
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