Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1880 (635×861)

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A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri .

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