Robert Lewis | |
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Robert_Lewis_portrait_drawing.jpg) Robert Lewis, illustrated in The Tri-States Union. | |
| Died | June 2, 1892 (aged 28) |
| Cause of death | Lynched |
Robert Lewis was a 28-year-old African American man who was lynched in Port Jervis, New York on June 2, 1892. His lynching was attended by what the local newspaper reported was a mob of 2,000 people,[1] and may have inspired Stephen Crane's novella The Monster.[2]
Lewis was accused by the mob of assaulting a white woman, Lena McMahon, in an incident by the Neversink River,[1] after she had possibly been meeting with her estranged suitor, a white man named Peter Foley.[3]
- ^ a b "A Lynching in New York 130 Years Ago Shows That The North Isn't Immune to Racial Hatred". Time. 2 June 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ^ Goldsby, Jacqueline Denise (2006). A spectacular secret : lynching in American life and literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 110. ISBN 0-226-30137-0. OCLC 1151339348.
- ^ Burrell, Kristopher B. (2003). "Bob Lewis' Encounter with the 'Great Death:' Port Jervis' Entrance into the 'United States of Lyncherdom". CUNY Academic Works. Hostos Community College.