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Laura and L. D. Nelson were an African-American mother and son who were lynched on May 25, 1911, near Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. [1] [2] They had been seized from their cells in the Okemah county jail the night before by a group of up to 40 white men, reportedly including Charley Guthrie, father of the folk singer Woody Guthrie . [3]
On May 24, 1911, shortly before midnight, a mob of dozens of armed white men broke into the Okfuskee County jail in Okemah, Oklahoma, and abducted Laura Nelson and her young son, L.D.
Oct 25, 2022 · Fourteen year old L. D. and his mother Laura Nelson were dragged from their cells and put into wagons. They traveled six miles outside of the city, and then they entered a Negro settlement.
There are several accounts and versions of the events leading up to this atrocity. But what we do know, is that Laura Nelson was murdered on May 25, 1911 in Okemah, OK side-by-side with her son L.D./Lawrence, who was 12 years-old at the time.
Jan 28, 2023 · Laura and L.D. Nelson were a mother and son who were dragged from a jail and lynched in Oklahoma, on May 25, 1911. Austin Nelson married Laura in 1896, and their son, Lawrence, was born the following year. The Nelson family lived on a farm near Paden, Oklahoma, a largely white town.
On May 25, 1911, Laura Nelson and her son L.D. Nelson were lynched from a bridge over the North Canadian River due to allegations that L.D. Nelson shot and killed George H. Loney, who was Okemah’s deputy sheriff.
Sep 26, 2020 · Twenty-three days prior, on May 2, 1911, Okemah deputy sheriff, George Loney and his associates went to the Nelson’s farm on a lead that Laura’s husband, Austin, had stolen a cow from a...
Apr 24, 2018 · Laura Nelson and Mary Turner. In May 1911, Laura Nelson was lynched in Okemah, Oklahoma. Nelson allegedly shot a sheriff to protect her son.
The lynching of Laura and Lawrence Nelson on 25 May 1911 in Okemah, Oklahoma. Epidemic Violence. Outside Okema, Oklahoma, bystanders pose on May 25, 1911, for a souvenir photo with the corpses of lynching victims Lawrence and Laura Nelson. (Flhc2019/Alamy Stock Photo)
Feb 1, 2023 · Laura and L.D. Nelson were a mother and son who were dragged from a jail and lynched in Oklahoma, on May 25, 1911. Austin Nelson married Laura in 1896, and their son,...
