Thread 12321564

any last words nigger?

>>12321564 (OP)
sleep now, little one

Who will pick my cotton?

>>12321564 (OP)
22 year-old James Keaton was lynched in Columbus, Missippi

There is little information online about James Keaton, who was convicted by an all-white and all-male jury in Columbus, Mississippi for killing service station owner Fred Hayslett during an altercation with a group of white men.

Keaton was sent to the gallows and his photograph was taken minutes before by photographer Otis Noel Pruitt on May 25, 1934.

A researcher's paper on Pruitt describes Keaton’s last moments: “In the photograph, a most telling detail is the look of Keaton, who at age twenty two, faces death in minutes. He looks straight into the camera. Before a black execution cowl had been pulled over his

black execution cowl had been pulled over his head, he said: ‘Goodbye, everybody'.”