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Wrongfully Arrested Then Lynched: The 1934 Killing of Robert Johnson in Jim Crow Florida - TalkAfricana

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In late January 1934, Robert Johnson, a 40-year-old Black man, was wrongly arrested for assaulting a white woman in Tampa, Florida. Although the police eventually cleared him of any involvement, a white mob seized him and lynched him before he could be released. Two days before his death, Robert Johnson was arrested by a Hillsborough […] TalkAfricana
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talkafricana.com broke the news in on Saturday, May 24, 2025.
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