Jesse Washington: A Child Who Was Murdered By A City

Nikki
10 min readAug 3, 2020

In 1916, Jesse was killed by the people of Waco, Texas, after being forced to sign a confession he could not read.

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Warning: This article discusses a violent lynching. To respect the memory of Jesse, pictures of the lynching are not part of this article, however, descriptions are not sanitized. All links that contain photos of the lynching will have a (*) by them.

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Nikki

Nikki writes about Black history, grief, and current events.