Ernest Harris, TN, 1936 May 22

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Harris, a 23-year-old Shelbyville, Tenn., Negro raped a _

young white a in the fall of 193). While BRXEEXHX he
“was on trial-a mob attempted to gtorm the court house and
__when tear gas ‘fired. by the National Guardsmen surrounding

the building failed to disperse the crowed; the Guardsmen

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fired into it, killing three outriz ght and mortaLll nan ae,
__wounding a_ four rth, Pound guilty, Harris was_ ele ctroc ted.
at the > State *rison aie Nashville on 1 May 2a 2 193 360

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HARRIS ,Ernest K.

Harris, 23-year-old Shelbyville,
young white girl in the fall of 193).
was on trial a mob attempted to gtorm the court house and
when tear gas Vired by the National Guardsmen surrounding
the building failed to disperse the crowed, the Guardsmen
“fired into tt, killing three ou ale and hortal Ly rset

__wounding eu vonment _Found guilty, ris was electrocuted
1936

at the State Prison in Nashville on May

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25 1936.



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