Spokane Outrage

ID: 4106 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Google News Archive.

This file appears in: The Cheney Lynchings: Mob violence or ethnic cleansing?

This account of events published in a Cheney newspaper days after the lynching attempted to justify the crime, and established the false narrative of the unidentified mob from Spokane.

This file appears in: The Cheney Lynchings: Mob violence or ethnic cleansing?

The Cheney Lynchings: Mob violence or ethnic cleansing?

By Larry Cebula

In the early 1880s two men were hanged without trial, one Chinese and the other a Spokane Indian.