Rubin Stacey, lynched victim, hanging from a tree, surrounded by onlookers, including girls, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Rubin Stacy, 37 was a homeless tenant farmer who knocked on a white woman’s door (Marion Jones) – she screamed, and he was arrested. 

As he was being led to jail by six deputies, a mob of about 100 overpowered them – ran their car off the road, and lynched him in sight of Marion’s house, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

 Marion claimed she offered him a drink of water, but he tried to assault her with a knife, which she later recanted. A photo of the lynching was sent to President F.D.

 Roosevelt to persuade him to support the Costigan-Wagner Act which would bring federal prosecution to any law enforcement officers who failed to exercise their responsibilities during a lynching incident.

 – Roosevelt refused to support the bill claiming he would lose Southern votes in the next election.

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