Talk:Lynching of Ell Persons

It is requested that an image or photograph be included in this article to improve its quality. Please replace this template with a more specific media request template where possible.
The Free Image Search Tool or Openverse Creative Commons Search may be able to locate suitable images on Flickr and other web sites.

Upload

A fact from Lynching of Ell Persons appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 November 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that after Ell Persons, an African American man, was lynched and decapitated in 1917, his head was thrown at a group of African Americans?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/November.

Wikipedia

Biography

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles

Death Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Death, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Death on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.DeathWikipedia:WikiProject DeathTemplate:WikiProject DeathDeath articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Crime and Criminal Biography Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Crime and Criminal Biography articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Crime and Criminal BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Crime and Criminal BiographyCrime-related articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

African diaspora Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject African diaspora, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of African diaspora on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.African diasporaWikipedia:WikiProject African diasporaTemplate:WikiProject African diasporaAfrican diaspora articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Tennessee Low‑importance

	Tennessee portal Lynching of Ell Persons is within the scope of WikiProject Tennessee, an open collaborative effort to coordinate work for and sustain comprehensive coverage of Tennessee and related subjects in the Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, and even become a member. [Project Articles] • [Project Page] • [Project Talk] • [Assessment] • [Template Usage]TennesseeWikipedia:WikiProject TennesseeTemplate:WikiProject TennesseeTennessee articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Source request[edit]

This article needs the sources from the newspapers at that time. The Crisis July 1917 has some snippets but not all. I don't know if they're available online; I haven't been able to find. In particular, the Tennessee Historical Quarterly article looks to be the most complete account but I've only been able to see snippet views. Without those, this article is stuck. Christopher Connor (talk) 18:04, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are a couple of newspapers articles listed by Google, though you'd have to pay to see them. But sometimes it's possible to use the information to find the articles in other ways:

"NEGRO BURNED BY TENNESSEE MOB", The Hartford Courant, May 23, 1917.

"NEGRO IS BURNED AT SCENE OF CRIME", The Atlanta Constitution, May 23, 1917.

There might be more details in Margaret Vandiver's Lethal Punishment. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 06:31, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll see what I can do. Christopher Connor (talk) 13:23, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Misspelling[edit]

If the misspelling "drunkeness" is in the original, there should be a {{sic}} after it. If not, it should be corrected. —Angr (talk) 19:00, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It was spelt correctly in the newspaper report. I've fixed it. Thanks for spotting that. Christopher Connor (talk) 19:45, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on Lynching of Ell Persons. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.robertwhitaker.org/robertwhitaker.org/Laps%20Documents_files/Ell%20Persons.PDF
Replaced archive link http://www.webcitation.org/5u4fp3R7E?url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0614F9395E11738DDDAA0A94DD405B878DF1D3 with https://web.archive.org/web/20121110202745/http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0614F9395E11738DDDAA0A94DD405B878DF1D3 on https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0614F9395E11738DDDAA0A94DD405B878DF1D3
Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.archive.org/stream/studyofmobaction00stee/studyofmobaction00stee_djvu.txt

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 06:25, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]