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Will Stanley lynching
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This postcard shows the lynching of Will Stanley in Temple, Texas, in 1915. On the internet, this postcard is often mistaken for the 1916 lynching of Jesse Washington.
For proof, see the January 1916 issue of Crisis magazine, which was published in January 1916, before the Washington lynching. It shows the image from the postcard and names Stanley as the victim.
- Crisis magazine, DuBois, W.E.B., ed. (January 1916). "The Burden". The Crisis. 11 (3): 145.
- Patricia Bernstein (18 January 2006). The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP. Texas A&M University Press. pp. 58–59. ISBN 978-1-58544-544-8.
- Wood, Amy Louise (2011). Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 92–93, 108, 180. ISBN 978-0-8078-7811-8.
- Miller, Rick (2011). "A Savage Lynching". Bloody Bell County: Vignettes of Violence and Mayhem in Central Texas. Texas: Bell County Museum. ISBN 9781935632146.
