Talk:Lynching of George Taylor

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Winged Blades of Godric: I'd say this passes notability mainly for the fact that the NAACP used his case as an example in one of their anti-lynching pamphlets a year after the action, and that this pamphlet has been used as a primary source teaching document in American schools (which I just confirmed by a brief Google Books search). You can see the pamphlet on Wikisource s:en: The Fight Against Lynching. The fact that is was also carried by the Washington Post shows that it had impact outside of North Carolina (the Post wasn't as big a deal in 1919 as it is today, but the geographic reach is important to note here). I'm going to go ahead and accept it. I think it is good enough to pass AfC (and I'd likely !vote keep or weak keep at an AfD), but I have no objections to someone testing it if they want. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:21, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@TonyBallioni:--Edit-conflicted while accepting:) Anyways, not too convinced, shall this arrive at AFD but good enough from an AFC perspective.~ Winged Blades^Godric 15:26, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, no problem: I just do want to point out that being the only lynching recorded in Wake County is kinda a big deal (it has the capital of North Carolina, and that they only had one lynching in the county during the Jim Crow era is actually pretty shocking.) I also highly suspect that there are paper books that mention this that I could find if I were more interested in the coverage of the Jim Crow era (I think it is very important, but it isn't something that I want to go to the library to research if that makes sense). Coffee, you might be interested in this given that you've been working on a lot of civil rights stuff of late, and Berean Hunter might forgive me for pinging him for his thoughts on the content as well. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:34, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm..I also saw Coffee working in this area and will gladly leave it in his able hands:)~ Winged Blades^Godric 15:53, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A map of documented lynchings in NC and given that this article was written with primarily contemporary newspapers and the EJI pamphlet as sources, I'd say that this article was written with this project in mind. I'm not finding anything that would add to the article. Bigger news would eclipse this story in less than a week so sparse coverage in papers would be expected at that point.
— Berean Hunter (talk) 16:43, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure on this one. At the moment it doesn't seem to fall under the realm of WP:CRM, unless there's some form of proof or likelihood of racial discrimination here. If she was persuaded by the police to name him or he was otherwise wrongly targeted I could see notability, but the way the article is written currently that appears not to be the case. Notability is questionable unless there's more to the story than they way Taylor was killed, in my opinion. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 06:15, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Berean Hunter @Coffee @TonyBallioni @Winged Blades of Godric I am a member of the Wake County Community Remembrance Coalition. I am a teacher in Wake County, and we knew nothing of this story until we stumbled into it in the Red Record. We have a historical committee working to update this Wikipedia, and welcome your feedback once we get it up and running. At this time we have articles from 111 newspaper articles, published in 18 states, and in Washington DC. Yet we had not found the 1919 NAACP pamphlet. THANK YOU! If any of you want to join our work, we meet each month virtually. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ULUAjoHHtCZEYXuPthGSLcjq1BEC64ph/view?usp=drive_link 68.4.241.120 (talk) 19:58, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]