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Lynching of the Walker family
The lynching of the Walker family happened in Hickman, Fulton County, Kentucky on October 3, 1908 at the hands of about fifty anonymous Night Riders.〔Louisville Courier-Journal, October 5, 1908; New York Times, October 5, 1908; Chicago Tribune, October 5, 1908; Paducah News-Democrat, October 8, 1908; Eugene P. Lyle, "Night Riding: A Reign of Fear," Hampton's Magazine, XXII (April 1909), pg 472. http://genealogytrails.com/ken/ky_africanamericanlynchings.html〕
After patriarch David Walker refused to come out of his house, the Lynch mob poured coal oil on his house, and lit it afire. After Walker tried to plead for the safety of him and his family, he walked outside, and his body was riddled with bullets. The same thing happened when David Walker's wife came outside, holding a baby in her arms. "She held in her arms their infant child and begged the Night Riders for mercy. Disregarding her pleadings the infuriated mob opened fire and a bullet pierced the body of an infant in its mother's arms. A second shot struck the mother in the abdomen and she fell, still holding the dead body of her infant." When the 3 children came out, they were met with the same fate. Walker's eldest son, however, refused to leave the burning log cabin house. As the Courier-Journal noted, "There is hardly a doubt but the oldest son of Walker preferred death by burning rather than to placing himself as the mercy of the mob, and it is probable that his charred body will be found among the debris."〔Wright, George C. Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings". pg. 123-124〕
==Reason for the lynching==
The reasons are not clear, though there's two possibilities. The Fulton County Night Riders justified their murders because David Walker had swore "at a white woman"〔Wright, George C. Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, & "Legal Lynchings" (Baton Rouge & London: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1990). http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-south&month=9803&week=c&msg=jZeBiOH8aPLDYKG79VjaYQ&user=&pw=〕 The other possible reason was that Walker had a bad reputation, and was a "surly negro".〔Smith, Gerald L. A Black Educator in the Segregated South: Kentucky's Rufus B. Atwood
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