September 18th – Today in Oregon History

September 18th – Today in Oregon History

    Alonzo Tucker, a Black man in Marshfield (now Coos Bay,) is charged with raping a white woman. He is released from jail, hunted by 200 men. He is shot twice and then hung from a bridge. His lynching is the only recorded one in Oregon History, but is undoubtedly and unfortunately not the only one.

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