I’ve reached the land of corn and wine, And all its riches freely mine; Here shines undimmed one blissful day, For all my night has passed away… George Floyd and Laura and L.D. Nelson died on the same day — May 25 — 109 years apart. The Nelsons, a mother and son, were #lynched near […]
Laura Nelson’s Grave
At night in dreams he sees their souls rise Like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies Well this is a prayer for the souls of the departed –Springsteen Down an old dirt road in Okfuskee County is a gravel turn-out that bends in a half circle right by a stand of trees. Underneath them is a glorious patch […]
Oklahoma Lynching of Laura Nelson and Her Son
Lynching of Laura Nelson, L.D. Nelson in Oklahoma and Life’s Other Side In 1911, an Oklahoma mob lynched Laura Nelson, 35, and her 13-year-old son Lawrence over the Old Schoolton Bridge at Yarbrough’s Crossing west of Okemah. The tragedy was photographed and the images were brazenly sold as postcards. James Allen, author of Without […]