Avery Lynch's Feet Photos

The lynching of Avery Mills in Forest City, North Carolina took place on August 29, 1900. The day before being lynched, Mills, an African-American farmer, had been arrested for shooting his landlord Mills Higgins Flack in self-defense. His pregnant wife Raney Mills was also arrested but was not lynched because of her pregnancy. She was subsequently convicted of second degree murder for the shooting of Flack and served a year of her sentence before being pardoned by Governor Charles B. Aycock....

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